Basic git-archive --remote question

I'm trying to create a tarball from a git tag and I can't get the syntax right. The documentation is not very clear.

Can someone help me?

== details

git v1.8.1.4

The upstream git repo is at: https://github.com/dkovar/analyzeMFT

Here's a few attempts using git as the protocol:

Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

fatal: remote error
   Your Git client has made an invalid request:
   003agit-upload-archive /dkovar/analyzeMFT

remote: fatal: '//github.com/dkovar/analyzeMFT.git' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: sent error to the client: git upload-archive: archiver died with error remote: git upload-archive: archiver died with error

The github page also says I can use ssh with git as the user, but that complains I don't have the private key (which I don't):

git archive --format=tar --remote=ssh://git@github/com/dkovar/analyzeMFT.git v2.0.4

Thanks Greg

On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 15:53 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Assuming you haven't set up any ssh rules for the github.com host, you're trying to log in with ssh with your local username, which isn't going to work.

This is the right format. GitHub doesn't allow remote archive requests, which is why it's complaining.

If you want a tarball from GitHub, you need to download over HTTP from the links they provide (which you can find e.g. through the web UI).

Using git as the ssh user is the right thing (if you want to talk git over ssh) with GitHub and a few other sites/hosting programs, as your public key is used to determine which user is trying to connect without giving each user an account on the underlying OS.

   cmn

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:53:56PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

Your remote should be git@github.com:dkovar/analyzeMFT.git.

But...

Your syntax is fine, but GitHub does not support remote git-archive requests. Not over git://, and not over ssh. In both cases the error messages are rather confusing and unhelpful, though.

This is wrong, as it is looking for //github.com... in the local filesystem.

If you have a GitHub account and register your public key, then you can use ssh to fetch from the repository (using the git@github.com:user/repo syntax). However, remote git-archive is not currently supported, so it would not help you.

-Peff