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Subject: Re: git address in SRC_URI, doesn't works for me
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On Saturday 19 January 2013 17:13:01 lei yang wrote:
> One git address's prefix is "http" --->
> http://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git,
> 
> it means
> 
> git clone  http://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git  ---------> works
> git clone git://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git ---------> doesn't work
> 
> I tried SRC_URI with below, both failed
> 
> SRC_URI = "http://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git;protocol=git"
> it tells
> fatal: reference is not a tree: c23c0d33ed98a1dcee40115018b73cb3d4cda8d7
> 
> 
> SRC_URI = "git://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git;protocol=http"
> it doe noting,and trying to find COPING,but it doesn't clone it

I think you already got this answered on IRC, but for reference you need to 
use git://....;protocol=http and not http://.....;protocol=git. BitBake uses 
the prefix to determine which fetcher to use (matching the type of repository 
being fetched from) and then each individual fetcher decides the meaning of 
the protocol argument. In this case you're fetching from a git repository 
using the HTTP transport protocol.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre