Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2008, 04:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabi05xl1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080605040315.GA21798@kroah.com>

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:09:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder
>> how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently.  Could this
>> be a regression in "git clone"?  Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's
>> repository slightly differently between them?
>
> That's odd.
>
> Chris was the one that created the .24 tree and I created the .25 tree,
> so we must have done so differently, sorry.

No need to be sorry.  Thanks for raising the issue up.

I think I have one possible explanation. When "git clone" was rewritten in C some time ago, it started to dereference symlinks, and newer git would dereference /pub -> /home/ftp/pub when you do:

	git clone -s --bare /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/ linux-2.6.2x.y

while the scripted version used to keep /pub/scm path.

A bit further digging is necessary to make sure if we can fix this easily, but I suspect this is worth fixing.