Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2008, 04:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20080605040315.GA21798@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6bdxh3l.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:09:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> >> Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> >> error: Unable to find fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
> > ...
> > It looks like git over http isn't following the link somehow to the main
> > repo?
> 
> Yeah, see above.  www.kernel.org does not like to serve /home/ftp/pub/scm
> path; it wants to serve it as /pub/scm/linux instead.
> 
> Your objects/info/alternates in 2.6.24.y points at /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...
> but in 2.6.25.y it has extra /home/ftp in front of it.
> 
> A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder
> how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently.  Could this
> be a regression in "git clone"?  Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's
> repository slightly differently between them?

That's odd.

Chris was the one that created the .24 tree and I created the .25 tree, so we must have done so differently, sorry.

I've edited the alternates file, so it should work now, sorry about that.

thanks,

greg k-h