Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:56:35PM +0000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> 
> > With GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY defined, it fails with:
> > 
> > $ GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 ../git/git-fetch richard
> > error: gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found. (curl_result = 35, http_code = 0, sha1 = 510567ca41e201253445528ca6eb89ed43e71fce)
> > Getting pack list for https://server.example.com/~richard/newfoo.git
> > error: gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.
> > Getting alternates list for https://server.example.com/~richard/newfoo.git
> > error: Unable to find 510567ca41e201253445528ca6eb89ed43e71fce under https://server.example.com/~richard/newfoo.git
> > Cannot obtain needed object 510567ca41e201253445528ca6eb89ed43e71fce
> > fatal: Fetch failed.
> 
> OK, I was finally able to reproduce your bug. It seems that it _only_
> happens when using curl built against gnutls. I built against the
> libcurl4-openssl-dev in Debian unstable, and the problem goes away.
> 
> Can you confirm that building using the openssl version of curl fixes
> the problem?
> 
> Googling for your error message turns up only one other instance: a bug
> in pidgin where the result was "this seems like a bug in gnutls." I hate
> to say "it's not our bug" without knowing exactly what is causing it,
> though. And it does seem odd that it works with 1.5.3.8. I wonder if
> there is some difference in the way we are calling curl that matters.