Re: git over http from linuxtv

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

m7aalton wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 20:08 +0100, ext Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> m7aalton wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to access the linuxtv.org git repositories using http?
>>> I tried to do this:
>>>
>>> git remote add linuxtv git://linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git
>> You should be able to use both URL's:
>>
>> URL	http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git
>> 	git://linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git
>>
>> There were a miss-configuration for the http URL. I just fixed it.
> 
> 
> Now it works better but I still couldn't clone it properly. The update
> from linuxtv didn't seem to do anything....
> 
> Here's what happened:
> 
> $ git clone
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> v4l-dvb
> 
> $ cd v4l-dvb
> 
> $ git remote add linuxtv http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git
> 
> $ git remote update
> Updating origin
>>From http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
>    13dda80..3a5b27b  master     -> origin/master
> Updating linuxtv
> 
> $ git branch -a
> * master
>   origin/HEAD
>   origin/master
> 
> $ git checkout -b media-master linuxtv/master
> fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
> branches.
> Did you intend to checkout 'linuxtv/master' which can not be resolved as
> commit?

This happens when you try to use a gitweb URL instead of the proper one. At the above,
you've used the wrong URL. The correct one is:
	 http://linuxtv.org/git/v4l-dvb.git

You don't need to re-do the entire procedure. Just edit .git/config and put the
correct URL there for the linuxtv remote.

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Cheers,
Mauro