Re: Someone please turn on the http protocol on git.kernel.org!

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Mike Accetta wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Timur Tabi wrote:
> > > I see we now have a dedicate machine for the git server.  That's great.
> > > How about turning on the http protocol so that those of use behind a
> > > firewall can clone trees?
> > 
> > > I get this:
> > > 
> > > $ git-clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git.git
> > > Initialized empty Git repository in /temp/git/.git/
> > > Cannot get remote repository information.
> > > Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> > 
> > Don't use the git server for that, please.  Use
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/... instead.
> 
> Another unfortunate stuck behind a firewall here.  When I try this it chugs
> along for a while seeming to work but eventually aborts:
> 
> % git clone
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linus
> ...
> walk 0964ce24d091a1d3dc7f667e1b107ab77d4325e6
> walk c264852726dde251a0c09ec22f61a9be8b0db68b
> walk 69903d6500c73af8329a5fba7153b0d50748981c
> walk b59a9504cb93db7fae31e60760725d48652a1fc3
> error: Couldn't get
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs/tags/v2.6.11
> for tags/v2.6.11
> The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: Could not interpret tags/v2.6.11 as something to pull

I see these from time to time too, when pulling through http. Using the `other'
www.kernel.org (try www1.kernel.org vs. www2.kernel.org) usually fixes the
problem. I guess the mirroring is not perfect.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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