From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Takahiro Akashi <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Cloning with git HEAD fails for some repositories
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:35:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322203525.nw54axh63zq7lfek@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78963dea-9ac8-8fd3-c3cc-6237eee6f974@gmx.de>
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
> Yes, git HEAD + said patch works with this command:
> git -c http.followRedirects=true clone http://git.denx.de/u-boot-efi.git
>
> http.followRedirects is documented in man 1 git-config.
>
> Why would git prior to 17966c0a63d25b1cc2dd1e98d30873e643bd581f~1 work
> without this redirect parameter?
>
> That following redirects is not secure is already described in
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt
17966c0a63d25b1cc2dd1e98d30873e643bd581f predates the
requirement to enable http.followRedirects for http-alternates:
cb4d2d35c4622ec2513c1c352d30ff8f9f9cdb9e
("http: treat http-alternates like redirects")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-22 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <7e4a2f1d-2b3a-eb83-d3f1-9ac63d68991b@gmx.de>
[not found] ` <20190322005107.GL9937@linaro.org>
2019-03-22 6:02 ` [BUG] Cloning with git HEAD fails for some repositories Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-03-22 7:12 ` Jeff King
2019-03-22 8:21 ` Wolfgang Denk
2019-03-22 9:31 ` Jeff King
2019-03-22 16:50 ` Eric Wong
2019-03-22 17:42 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-03-22 18:09 ` Eric Wong
2019-03-22 18:41 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-03-22 20:35 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-03-23 8:53 ` Jeff King
2019-03-24 12:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] fix dumb-http fetch with alternates Jeff King
2019-03-24 12:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] http: factor out curl result code normalization Jeff King
2019-03-24 12:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] http: normalize curl results for dumb loose and alternates fetches Jeff King
2019-03-24 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] http: use normalize_curl_result() instead of manual conversion Jeff King
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