Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 8, 2008, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20080208003239.GA18856@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080207220243.GA7237@glandium.org>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:02:43PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:

> Sorry, I've had trouble opening my eyes and actually reading messages I
> reply to... anyways, I tried to reproduce with curl-gnutls and...
> couldn't... How did you manage that ? Is the server you were trying on
> public ? Do you have any http.ssl* variables set in your configuration ?

No, my test repo is not public. I have no special ssl configuration (though I do use GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 since I just had a test self-signed cert). The exact recipe on my Debian system is:

1. Build broken git on client

  client$ apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev
  client$ cd ~/compile/git && make install

2. On server with ssl-enabled webserver (I am using lighttpd, but
   I don't think that it matters), make a small repo.

  server$ cd /var/www
  server$ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init
  server$ echo one >file && git add file && git commit -m one
  server$ git update-server-info

3. On client, clone repo, which should work ok

  client$ export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 ;# if necessary
  client$ git clone https://yourserver.com/foo/.git

4. make a new commit in parent repo

  server$ echo two >file && git commit -a -m two
  server$ git update-server-info

5. fetch from client (this output is with GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1; you get
   slightly different output if verification is on)

  client$ git fetch
  error: gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.
  (curl_result = 35, http_code = 0, sha1 =
  07ac7bd2edd32a5818d719145910119ab72c9dd4)
  Getting pack list for https://peff.net/git/foo/.git
  error: gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.
  Getting alternates list for https://peff.net/git/foo/.git
  error: Unable to find 07ac7bd2edd32a5818d719145910119ab72c9dd4 under
  https://peff.net/git/foo/.git
  Cannot obtain needed object 07ac7bd2edd32a5818d719145910119ab72c9dd4
  fatal: Fetch failed.

6. On client, rebuild with libcurl4-openssl-dev

  client$ apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
  client$ cd ~/compile/git && make clean install

7. On client, do the fetch, which now works

  client$ cd ~/foo && git fetch

-Peff