Re: git-clone works with ssh but not with http/https/git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 24, 2008, 11:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806241246500.9925@racer>
In-Reply-To: <ce513bcc0806240445x6d00323g303f218504d2df53@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Erez Zilber wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:15 +0300, Erez Zilber wrote:
> >
> >> [root@kd001 t]# git-clone http://kites/pub/git/erez.zilber/my_test.git
> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/erez.zilber/work/tmp/t/my_test/.git/
> >> Cannot get remote repository information.
> >> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> >>
> >
> > Maybe you should run git-update-server-info in the repository on the
> > server?
> 
> Forgot to mention - I tried to run git-update-server-info from the
> repository on the server.

No, you did not. Otherwise, the message would not appear. It can be that you have _another_ repository on the server, but running update-server-info there does not help.

> I got the same results. BTW - if it works OK with ssh, I can only guess 
> that git-update-server-info won't help for http. right?

Wrong again. ssh transport is special, and does not need the information update-server-info provides.

Hth, Dscho