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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Bruce Lysik <blysik@apple.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-archive fails against smart-http repos
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:58:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130111205849.GA17810@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6014ED12-17F9-4D57-927F-6AFCD8A51C9D@apple.com>

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

> Trying to run git-archive fails against smart-http based repos.  Example:
> 
> $ git archive --verbose --format=zip --remote=http://code.toofishes.net/git/dan/initscripts.git
> fatal: Operation not supported by protocol.
> Unexpected end of command stream
> 
> This problem was brought up against my internal repos as well.

Right. Neither the client nor server for the http transport knows how to
handle the "git-upload-archive" service (as opposed to the regular
"git-upload-pack" or "git-receive-pack" services). I don't think there's
anything technical standing in the way; it is has simply never been
implemented.

Currently, you can do remote git-archive only locally, via ssh, or over
git:// (but then only if the server side has explicitly enabled it).

Patches welcome.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-11 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09 18:52 git-archive fails against smart-http repos Bruce Lysik
2013-01-11 20:58 ` Jeff King [this message]

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