Re: git-http-fetch failure/segfault -- alas no patch

From: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Jan 31, 2006, 09:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20060131093200.GA5154@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <17374.30792.548889.344768@metalzone.distorted.org.uk>

Hello,

Mark Wooding wrote:

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> (Yes, that repository exists and is live; the server is fairly
> well-connected.  FWIW, I've put up a tarball of the repository called
> .../funt.git.tar.gz too.)  You ought to be greeted with text like this:
> 
>   error: Unable to find b4f495485ca9ae825ec8c504cdcf24652342f43c under
>   http://boyle.nsict.org/~mdw/funt/.git/
> 
>   Cannot obtain needed commit b4f495485ca9ae825ec8c504cdcf24652342f43c
>   while processing commit 351c72525b9ee5b2321c65598ce82a4e79015012.
> 
> If you're very lucky, git-http-fetch will segfault.

I have the same problem here with an other http repo. I just finished bisecting when i got your mail.

The offending commit is 056211053b7516a57ff7a6dd02f503ecef6fca70:

git-clone: do not special case dumb http.

Best regards Uwe

-- 
Uwe Zeisberger

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