From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:53:58 GMT
Subject: Re: http git and curl 7.16.0
Message-ID: <7vlkkt5d49.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612271457.kBREvkj2011916@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:07:08AM +0400, George Sherwood wrote:
>> > I seem to be having a problem doing an http checkout with git built
>> > with curl 7.16.0 enabled.  If I build against curl 7.16.0 and try a
>> > clone, I get:
> ...
>> > git clone http://dmlb2000.homelinux.org/~dmlb2000/git-repos/local/castfs.git
>> > error: Unable to start request error: Could not interpret heads/master
>> > as something to pull
>> > 
>> > If I rebuild git against curl 7.15.5 then I get:
>> [..]
>> > and the checkout finishes.
>> > 
>> > Has any one else seen this?
>
>> FWIW, I've seen the same with curl 7.16.0 on a Solaris 9 machine.
>> It worked fine with curl 7.15.0.
>
> It works fine for me on Aurora Corona (sparc) with curl-7.15.5-1.al3, while
> it fails as above on Fedora rawhide (i386) with curl-7.16.0-4.fc7.
>
> Furthermore, with new curl pulling from HTTP repos when there are updates
> gives double free errors and a crash.

Hmmm.  Could somebody please run http-fetch under gdb and see
where it breaks?  The exact command line you need to use would
be obtainable by running "sh -x git-clone" once.

[jc: Nick CC'ed, although I haven't seen him on the list for
some time...]