From: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:39:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Cannot clone redirecting stdout
Message-ID: <4AA9F0A2.6050105@atlas-elektronik.com>
In-Reply-To: <fc8ab2ad0909101533l135c8003m80091cb40ec93f16@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/11/2009 12:33 AM, Aloisio wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I faced a problem when trying to clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git
> 
> this works:
> git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo
> 
> this doesn't:
> git clone -n git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git repo >log
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> fatal: early EOF
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> I reproduced the error in the following versions:
> git version 1.6.0.4
> git version 1.6.4.2
> git version 1.5.4.7
> 
> Any clues?
> Thanks

I'd say:

Take a look at /proc/<pid-of-git>/fd

fd 0 (stdout) is linked through a pipe to 'git index-pack'.
Redirecting this link breaks everything.

Regards,
Stefan