From: "Aubrey Li" <aubreylee@gmail.com>
To: "Julian Phillips" <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone problem through HTTP
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:38:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d6a94c50704200638y7cd3c81aj3ff7f78863f4ab8d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704201245330.10595@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Aubrey Li wrote:
>
> > I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted, so I
> > can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git
> > tree at all.
>
> Linus packs his refs, which means that currently you can't clone using
> http, with any version of git.
I really don't understand why packed refs or not depend on the protocol.
It doesn't make any sense.
>
> Try http://repo.or.cz/r/linux-2.6.git/ instead? This appears to be a
> straight clone, but without packed refs.
Does git support to update working copy to a different URL? for
example, I clone the repo through GIT, and switch the working copy to
HTTP, is it possible?
Or clone it from http://repo.or.cz/r/linux-2.6.git, and switch it to
www.kernel.org?
-Aubrey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-20 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-20 7:15 git clone problem through HTTP Aubrey Li
2007-04-20 11:48 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-20 13:01 ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-04-20 13:38 ` Aubrey Li [this message]
2007-04-20 13:59 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-20 14:01 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-20 14:19 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-20 21:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 21:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-22 5:10 ` Aubrey Li
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