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Re: http git and curl 7.16.0

From
Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Dec 27, 2006, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID
<200612271457.kBREvkj2011916@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
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<skimo@kotnet.org>
Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:07:08AM +0400, George Sherwood wrote:
> > I seem to be having a problem doing an http checkout with git built
> > with curl 7.16.0 enabled.  If I build against curl 7.16.0 and try a
> > clone, I get:
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> > git clone http://dmlb2000.homelinux.org/~dmlb2000/git-repos/local/castfs.git
> > error: Unable to start request error: Could not interpret heads/master
> > as something to pull
> > 
> > If I rebuild git against curl 7.15.5 then I get:
> [..]
> > and the checkout finishes.
> > 
> > Has any one else seen this?
> FWIW, I've seen the same with curl 7.16.0 on a Solaris 9 machine.
> It worked fine with curl 7.15.0.

It works fine for me on Aurora Corona (sparc) with curl-7.15.5-1.al3, while it fails as above on Fedora rawhide (i386) with curl-7.16.0-4.fc7.

Furthermore, with new curl pulling from HTTP repos when there are updates gives double free errors and a crash.

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