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Re: getting git from kernel.org is failing

From
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Jul 23, 2013, 21:06 UTC
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<20130723210604.GF2337@serenity.lan>
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 01:40:05PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> I didn't think cgit URLs were meant to be clonable, but since
> ls-remote works on them, it seems I thought wrong. :)  Odd.

CGit has a config option "enable-http-clone" which causes it to act as an endpoint for the dumb HTTP protocol. That option defaults to "on", so I suspect that kernel.org has just left it at the default.

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  4. Jonathan NiederJul 23, 2013
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