From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Phillips Subject: Re: git clone problem through HTTP Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:19:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <6d6a94c50704200015p65dc4a8dn4abd8aaed35b9521@mail.gmail.com> <6d6a94c50704200638y7cd3c81aj3ff7f78863f4ab8d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Aubrey Li , git@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Gernhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 20 16:19:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HetxU-0003wq-3i for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:19:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767107AbXDTOT2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:19:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993255AbXDTOT2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:19:28 -0400 Received: from electron.quantumfyre.co.uk ([87.106.55.16]:47297 "EHLO electron.quantumfyre.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993034AbXDTOT1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:19:27 -0400 Received: from neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk (neutron.datavampyre.co.uk [212.159.54.235]) by electron.quantumfyre.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C9DC64B0 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:19:26 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 21691 invoked by uid 103); 20 Apr 2007 15:18:38 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.2 by neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.90.2/3135. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.040249 secs); 20 Apr 2007 14:18:38 -0000 Received: from reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk (192.168.0.2) by neutron.datavampyre.co.uk with SMTP; 20 Apr 2007 15:18:37 +0100 X-X-Sender: jp3@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Aubrey Li wrote: > >> On 4/20/07, Julian Phillips wrote: >> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Aubrey Li wrote: >> > >> > > I'm behind of a firewall on which the git port is not permitted, so I >> > > can only use http protocol. Unfortunately, I can't clone linus' git >> > > tree at all. >> > >> > Linus packs his refs, which means that currently you can't clone using >> > http, with any version of git. >> >> I really don't understand why packed refs or not depend on the protocol. >> It doesn't make any sense. > > I think it's simply because git-http-fetch doesn't look for the packed-refs > file. Yep. > Are we actually going to support HTTP fetching? If so, we should > update it to pull the packed-refs file too. If not, it should be clearly > marked as depreciated. That said, I think HTTP is the easiest way for most > people to publish and removing it would be a mistake. I'd poke at it, but > there's not enough spare time in the day at the moment. I was hoping to find time to poke this over the weekend ... maybe even this evening. -- Julian --- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.