Re: Git fetch/pull stopped working

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 11, 2012, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20120511202828.GA17750@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH-tXsCi+zL5hKAHROA0hVfvOr07o4cknS8jy9qngapwB77QnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:25:42AM +0530, jaseem abid wrote:

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> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Egor Ryabkov <egor.ryabkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Problem solved.
> >
> > Turns out that was a miscommunication on out side: the guy who setup
> > the keys on that box left, and his access to GH repo has been revoked.
> >
> > And GitHub returns "repo not found" rather than "you have no access
> > rights for this repository".
> 
> I have seen a lot of github guys in this list. I hope they will fix
> this soon. I had this issue a long time back and now I'm understanding
> what exactly happened then :)

This is not a bug, but rather the intentional behavior. It is there to prevent an information leak about the names of private repositories that the user has. Git-daemon has the same behavior by default (though it has a "friendly" mode if you are willing to leak that information for your site).

-Peff