Re: getting git from kernel.org is failing

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 23, 2013, 20:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20130723202127.GA2051@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130723200605.GE5129@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:06:05PM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:

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> Confirmed (tested both with and without trailing /, IIRC there was some
> configuration change recently that effect that):
> iveqy@kolya:~/slask/git$ git clone
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/
> Klonar till "git"...
> error: Unable to get pack index
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/objects/pack/pack-1e2bca8b5127039cff42b1cd3d47767fb577cd4f.idx

That's weird. We shouldn't be fetching an index at all unless dumb http is in use. When I try to clone from the URL above, I also get shunted to dumb-http (and the repo on the server appears to be poorly packed).

But if I go to:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

then smart HTTP works fine. I wonder if there is a problem in the cgit setup on kernel.org (or if it was even intended that you could fetch from the cgit URL at all; the cgit page shows the clone URLs in /pub/scm/git).

-Peff