Re: problem cloning via http since v1.6.6-rc0

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2010, 04:01 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001202001h4c794166y4bcf01b42f3ea1bb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100121023310.GB18213@onerussian.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:

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> *   Trying 217.196.43.134... * Connected to git.debian.org (217.196.43.134) port 80 (#0)
>> GET /git/pkg-exppsy/pymvpa.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: git/1.6.6.267.g5b159
> Host: git.debian.org
> Accept: */*
> Pragma: no-cache
>
> * The requested URL returned error: 404
> * Closing connection #0
> fatal: http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-exppsy/pymvpa.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

I don't think git's at fault here, as we're getting a 404 Not Found. Could you check that the repository (the one the url points to, after taking into any url rewriting) is a bare one, ie. has structure

  pkg-exppsy/
  |-pymvpa.git
    |-objects/
    |-info/
    |-refs/
    |-...

rather than the non-bare

  pkg-exppsy/
  |-pymvpa.git
    |-.git
      |-objects/
      |-info/
      |-refs/
      |-...

> as for smart vs DAV -- don't see any smart alias handling in apache
> configuration (I have/had no clue about some smart http in git, just looked at
> apache template and saw smart aliases -- is there smth else to check within
> webserver config?)

If that's the case, I don't think it's related to your problem. (Btw, "smart" refers to the http protocol that git can use to sync your repo, via a CGI program on the server, instead of WebDAV. See git-http-backend(1) for details.)

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan