Re: Cannot clone redirecting stdout

["Johan Sørensen" <johan@johansorensen.com>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:23:29AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> > I faced a problem when trying to clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git
>> >
>> > this works:
>> > git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo
>> >
>> > this doesn't:
>> > git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo >log
>> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>> > fatal: early EOF
>> > fatal: index-pack failed
>>
>> I can reproduce the problem here. But after staring at the strace for a
>> long time, I don't think the problem is on the client side. The remote
>> end _does_ hang up unexpectedly.
>>
>> Looking at what we send, the only difference between the redirected and
>> unredirected case I could find is that we send the "no-progress" flag to
>> the server, which then hangs up on us instead of sending us the pack.
>> Which makes no sense.
>
> I did a little more testing, and I can't reproduce the problem against a
> local git-daemon. I tried using several versions for the server, going
> all the way back to v1.5.0, which pre-dates no-progress, and all of them
> worked just fine.
>
> So I am inclined to think there is something non-standard or broken at
> gitorious.org. I'm cc'ing support@gitorious to see if they have any
> comment.

Some quick tests seem to indicate it's related to the fact that our
wonderful little fork+exec git-daemon[1] (which is different from the
one distributed with git) exec's to "git-upload-pack --strict
--timeout=30 /path/to/repo". Now, why exactly that'll trigger when the
no-progress flag is given I'm not sure of. The daemon itself execs as
soon as it figures out what repo the client requested, so apart from
the timeout the only thing it reacts to is the header (the
"${headersize}git-upload-pack project/repo.git\0host=gitorious.org\0"
part).

We also do redirect stderr to /dev/null for reasons I cannot remember
(so probably not good ones), that may be related as well. Well run
some more tests...

[1]: http://gitorious.org/gitorious/mainline/blobs/master/script/git-daemon

>
> -Peff
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