Re: [PATCH] opening files in remote.c should ensure it is opening a file

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Most bizarre workaround found for clone (the first 4 failures):
> --8<---
> diff -pur /a5/pro/3gl/LINUX/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh git-clone.sh
> --- a/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh  2008-02-02 05:09:01 +0100
> +++ b/git-1.5.4/git-clone.sh  2008-02-18 10:03:26 +0100
> @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ yes)
>                 '') git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet $depth $no_progress "$repo";;
>                 *) git-fetch-pack --all -k $quiet "$upload_pack" $depth $no_progress "$repo" ;;
>                 esac >"$GIT_DIR/CLONE_HEAD" ||
> -                       die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed."
> +                       exit 1
> +                       # die "fetch-pack from '$repo' failed."
>                 ;;
>         esac
>         ;;

That sounds *very* broken.

Is your /bin/sh really a variant of Bourne?

If HP-UX is broken in a similar way as Solaris is, in that it
installs a non-POSIX shell under /bin/sh and offers a Korn in
/bin/ksh, "make SHELL_PATH=/bin/ksh" may help.