On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:18:41PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> CC me on answers since i'm not subscribed to the list
> 
> Hi, one of our [KDE] anongit servers was updated to 1.7.8.1 and not the syntax
> 
> git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/repo.git HEAD:path

This syntax is no longer allowed due to some security tightening. Use
the alternate syntax

    git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/repo.git HEAD -- path

> 
> does not seem to return a valid tar archive anymore when it did work 
> previously. In fact the man page of my version has that syntax in one of the 
> examples.

That sounds like a documentation bug.

   cmn