Subject: Re: tip tree clone fail

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:07:36 -0700

Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:24:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> hm, -tip's .git/hooks/post-update already contained this, for the last 2 
>> months:
>>
>>   exec git update-server-info
>>
>> so ... _despite_ us having this in the git repo, the HTTP protocol still 
>> does not work. Why?
> 
> I think your problem is that HTTP does not know where to look for
> objects coming from alternates; IIRC this would work if you used
> relative paths in objects/info/alternates, or you can create
> objects/info/http-alternates like
> 
> 	/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects
> 	/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects
> 

Yes, alternates must not contain paths referencing /home/ftp.

	-hpa