Re: git build on msys fails (and fix)

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I am trying to push to 'mob'.

$ git branch --track mob origin/mob
$ tar -zxvf ~/pthread.tar.gz
$ make prefix= html all install
$ git push repo.or.cz:/srv/git/msysgit.git
fatal: protocol error: bad line length charact
@:/
[531]$ Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
Access denied
FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message
type 2 (protocol error):
"Too many authentication failures for dhruva"

Could someone help me out with this?

-dhruva

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> dhruva schrieb:
>>>  I got the mob branch and I fail to see the Makefile. I decided to
>>> just add the pthread related files and push so that someone could
>>> build, I get authentication failures. I had tried to push perl
>>> sometime back when I had a gcc compiler perl (before strawberry perl)
>>> and had similar problems. I am fairly certain I am doing something
>>> wrong but cannot figure it out!
>>
>> msysgit.git is *not* a git.git clone; it is the MSYS/MinGW environment to
>> build git.git on Windows.
>>
>> You should apply the steps 1. to 4. that you mentioned in an earlier mail
>> and push the result; but you cannot apply 5. because that is a change to
>> git itself.
>
> I request someone to just pull the archive I have placed just this
> time, I will try again for other patches. I will create a clone in a
> separate folder for msysgit and keep it ready. Unknowingly, I just
> cleaned up the remote and lost all the changes I had pulled earlier :(
>
> -dhruva
>
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