From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Klossner <andrew@cesa.opbu.xerox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:02:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63spxem0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m363spyta3.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT)")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>>>> error: Unable to find fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
>>> ...
>>> It looks like git over http isn't following the link somehow to the main
>>> repo?
>>
>> Yeah, see above. www.kernel.org does not like to serve /home/ftp/pub/scm
>> path; it wants to serve it as /pub/scm/linux instead.
>>
>> Your objects/info/alternates in 2.6.24.y points at /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...
>> but in 2.6.25.y it has extra /home/ftp in front of it.
>>
>> A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder
>> how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently. Could this
>> be a regression in "git clone"? Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's
>> repository slightly differently between them?
>
> Errr... isn't it the case for objects/info/http-alternates ?
You do not have to use that http specific hack. On these machines, /pub
actually points at /home/ftp/pub with a symlink.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200806041511.m54FBPL9006783@pogo.cesa.opbu.xerox.com>
2008-06-04 15:45 ` git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP Greg KH
2008-06-04 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-04 18:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-04 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-05 4:03 ` Greg KH
2008-06-05 4:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-05 5:08 ` Greg KH
2008-06-05 20:53 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-05 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-06 20:48 ` Greg KH
2008-06-06 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-06 21:54 ` Greg KH
2008-06-10 15:05 Andrew Klossner
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