Subject: Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags

From: Ivan Todoroski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:33:09 +0200

On 25.03.2012 04:32, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:06:09PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> That's weird. 405 is "Method Not Allowed". Clone shouldn't be doing
>> anything more exotic than GET and POST. And the prior tests pass, so it
>> means that it's working in general. The only thing different about this
>> test is that apache is configured to use mod_rewrite to issue a
>> redirect.
>>
>> Does your machine have mod_rewrite installed and enabled? I would think
>> apache would complain at startup if it wasn't.  I wonder if there's
>> something non-portable in the minimal apache config we ship.
>>
>> Does httpd/error.log in the trash directory say anything interesting?
> 
> Also, does it work any better with this patch?
> 
> diff --git a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
> index 3c12b05..714760d 100644
> --- a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
> +++ b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
> @@ -61,9 +61,8 @@ ScriptAlias /smart_noexport/ ${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/git-http-backend/
>  	Options ExecCGI
>  </Files>
>  
> -RewriteEngine on
> -RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-perm/(.*)$ /smart/$1 [R=301]
> -RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-temp/(.*)$ /smart/$1 [R=302]
> +RedirectMatch 301 ^/smart-redir-perm/(.*)$ /smart/$1
> +RedirectMatch 302 ^/smart-redir-temp/(.*)$ /smart/$1
>  
>  <IfDefine SSL>
>  LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Yes! That patch did it, t5551-http-fetch.sh now passes fully. Thank you.