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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:02:47 -0700
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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.