Re: Partial clone fails with file:/// URI

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2020, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20201014172746.GB2044338@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <CAN8Z4-XGbb_z3vmJYATONmBkxBcfxwyC-_4XEOkP0sxsdT9wxw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Nipunn Koorapati wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I've been building git from source and directly using the executable. Roughly
> ```
> cd git
> make
> cd ..
> git/git clone --filter=blob:none file://$(pwd)/git a_clone_of_git
> ```
>
> This is what I was missing:
> git config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant true
>
> If this is not set, then the checkout fails w/ a
>
> fatal: protocol error: bad pack header
>
> Perhaps the error message and/or docs could be improved here to
> something with more detail than "bad pack header"?
> Not seeing anything to suggest this in the docs
> https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone

Ah. OK; I feel much better knowing what the difference between our two setups is. This is a long-standing issue (I remember seeing it when I was experimenting with partial clones several releases ago) so I'm glad that we _don't_ have to treat this as a regression in 2.29.

> Thanks for the prompt response. Appreciated!
> --Nipunn

Thanks, Taylor