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Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)

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Nov 14, 2005, 13:09 UTC
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:09:40 +0100
> From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
> Subject: Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)
>
> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:42:33AM CET, I got a letter
> where wa1ter@myrealbox.com said that...
> > So, what does cogito do differently...
> Cogito uses the same logic and underlying GIT fetching commands for
> cloning as well as for fetching, while git-clone uses some custom logic
> for cloning ("dumb http clone")...
BTW, I just noticed one big difference between git clone and cg-clone:

git clone stores the URL in .git/remotes/origin while cg-clone puts it in .git/branches/origin. When I do a cg-update after a git clone then cg-update can't find the URL.

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Message 7 of 7 in “http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)”
  1. Randal L. SchwartzNov 12, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2005
  3. waltNov 14, 2005
  4. wa1ter@myrealbox.comNov 14, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisNov 14, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  7. wa1ter@myrealbox.comNov 14, 2005

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