From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
FNST-Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
FJ-KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: tip tree clone fail
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:40:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F3178A.50106@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081012165954.GA2317@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar said the following on 2008-10-13 0:59:
> * Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:24:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> hm, -tip's .git/hooks/post-update already contained this, for the last 2
>>> months:
>>>
>>> exec git update-server-info
>>>
>>> so ... _despite_ us having this in the git repo, the HTTP protocol still
>>> does not work. Why?
>> I think your problem is that HTTP does not know where to look for
>> objects coming from alternates; IIRC this would work if you used
>> relative paths in objects/info/alternates, or you can create
>> objects/info/http-alternates like
>>
>> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects
>> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects
>
> ok, i've now set it up like this:
>
> $ pwd
> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
>
> $ cat objects/info/alternates
> /home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects
> /home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects
>
> $ cat objects/info/http-alternates
> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects
> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects
>
> and i've added "git update-server-info" to hooks/post-receive and made
> it chmod +x.
>
> that should be golden, right? I'm wondering why this isnt in the default
> setup - i've been behind a limited corporate firewall in a former life
> and having HTTP access is indeed very handy and pragmatic. Often hotel
> WLANs are HTTP only as well.
>
> Soapbox: in fact it would be outright stupid to limit the kernel
> source's availability artificially by not making HTTP a tier-one access
> method.
>
> Fighting against HTTP-only firewalls is like constantly pointing it out
> to the popular press that they should say 'cracker' instead of 'hacker'.
> It is pointless and only hurts the availability our own project.
>
Ingo, thank you for your work.
I can clone more, but error still occurs:
Getting alternates list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
Also look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
Also look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/
Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
error: transfer closed with 8280 bytes remaining to read
Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/
error: Unable to find 95630fe2917f805a26f8d8beaafb80cd2f729eb5 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git
Cannot obtain needed object 95630fe2917f805a26f8d8beaafb80cd2f729eb5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-10-10 8:56 ` tip tree clone fail Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-10 8:57 ` Wang Chen
2008-10-10 15:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-12 11:28 ` Wang Chen
2008-10-12 12:04 ` Lars Hjemli
2008-10-12 14:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-12 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-12 12:59 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-12 14:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-12 15:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-12 15:36 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-10-12 15:39 ` Petr Baudis
2008-10-12 16:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-12 17:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-12 17:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13 4:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-13 9:40 ` Wang Chen [this message]
2008-10-13 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-15 3:43 ` Wang Chen
2008-10-15 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-13 4:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
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