Subject: Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT)

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Greg KH <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>>> Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>>> error: Unable to find fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
>> ...
>> It looks like git over http isn't following the link somehow to the main
>> repo?
> 
> Yeah, see above.  www.kernel.org does not like to serve /home/ftp/pub/scm
> path; it wants to serve it as /pub/scm/linux instead.
> 
> Your objects/info/alternates in 2.6.24.y points at /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...
> but in 2.6.25.y it has extra /home/ftp in front of it.
> 
> A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder
> how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently.  Could this
> be a regression in "git clone"?  Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's
> repository slightly differently between them?

Errr... isn't it the case for objects/info/http-alternates ?

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Jakub Narebski
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