From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Liu Yubao Subject: "git clone" can't clone a gitweb URL Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:32:04 +0800 Message-ID: <454EF304.4030304@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qfkehyHY9V94M6LgZcvJy2dfVjr46A6qKW75bloDVXuIceSlda5GsMtoZ71yYXfSghoXAtJ6pXU4dRru/QghBQJnj1hZ+cMUntPUYIyy1V1MPpUuIuhU2O1H2aKlvLj6e+2Zl2ETQ0TVIJ4+MbfR/1ZscldKG2E270E9NkWco/I= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggzun-0003T4-2j for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:33:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423570AbWKFIdF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 03:33:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423601AbWKFIdF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 03:33:05 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:18669 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423570AbWKFIdD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2006 03:33:03 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s14so984049wxc for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.105.19 with SMTP id d19mr1858774agc.1162801982575; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:33:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.88.85? ( [221.122.47.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 11sm1710422wrl.2006.11.06.00.33.00; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:33:01 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org $ git clone http://repo.or.cz/w/i18n.git error: Can't lock ref rm: cannot remove directory `i18n/.git/clone-tmp': Directory not emp ty At last I found the URL was a gitweb URL not for mirroring. It's better git provides clear information like "This is maybe a gitweb URL, view it in web browser for more information", or gitweb can send a redirection response to git client. Even more, git-daemon also can send redirection response to tell git client that the service is offline temporarily and it can use an alternative