From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:59:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a debug mode for git-clone https traffic?
Message-ID: <20110518085932.GI27482@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=-i063MqrboT1MHrQy-vM0yBTUGg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:08:06AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I''m trying to debug a problem where over a https proxy I have
> "warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout."
> when doing git-clone.
> 
> I suspect that it might be an overzealous security scanner sitting in
> the middle.
> 
> Is there some debugging mode for git-clone where it'll dump the
> traffic being sent over the wire that I could use to confirm this?

Others have mentioned ways to dump data from clone. But you can more or
less see what's going on with "git ls-remote <remote>". The sha1 for
"HEAD" will try to match with the sha1 for some other ref. If it
doesn't, then we give up.

-Peff