From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:42:25 GMT
Subject: Problem with git fetch over http://
Message-ID: <63F7B390-32D1-458A-8ED9-D5AC62F46745@newartisans.com>

Hello, I'm using the Builtbot to pull sources from a Git repository,  
and have found that the Buildbot's Git step always uses git-fetch -- a  
detail of Buildbot which I currently have little control over.

This is no problem if the git:// protocol is used, but using fetch  
with http:// doesn't work.  This has been mentioned elsewhere:

   http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bitbake-dev/2007-November/000765.html

Here's a quick example of what I mean:

   cd /tmp ; mkdir foo ; cd foo ; git init

   git fetch git://newartisans.com/ledger.git	# works fine

   cd /tmp ; rm -fr foo ; mkdir foo ; cd foo ; git init

   git fetch http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git  # fails

This is happening with git-1.5.5 on the server, Apache 2.2 and  
git-1.5.5.1 on the client.

Thanks,
   John