Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <45D1D32C.1070900@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910702112053q2c196ddcr970a062281d332b7@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 2/11/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > jonsmirl@jonsmirl:/extra$ git clone
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gt/linville/wireless-dev.git
>> > Initialized empty Git repository in /extra/wireless-dev/.git/
>> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>> Are you sure the above is ".../linux/kernel/gt/linville/..."?
> 
> You're right it should be git instead of gt, somewhere in my copying
> strings around I lost the 'i' and wasn't paying attention.  That's not
> a very good error message: "fatal: The remote end hung up
> unexpectedly" for a missing repository.
>

It's necessary for security reasons that the git daemon doesn't tell you *why* it failed though, otherwise attackers could use the git daemon to browse the existance of files and directories on the remote end.

It could be nice to add "Are you sure $path_to_repo hosts a repository?" to the message though, which would toss any spelling errors in the users' face.

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