From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>, <overseers@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: git clone through http
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538897D1.1070602@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha48dp55.fsf@naesten.mooo.com>
On Thu 29 May 2014 09:35:50 PM EDT, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Cloning the binutils-gdb repository using the http address
>> (http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git) doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> $ git clone http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
>> Cloning into 'binutils-gdb'...
>> error: Unable to get pack index
>> http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-40a278cd270f8215e6b993869d659b2aff311eb8.idx
> [...]
>
> Such messages indicate that, in order for http access to work, someone
> either needs to:
>
> 1. Rename/copy the file "hooks/post-update.sample" in the repository
> to "hooks/post-update" to allow use of the "dumb" git protocol.
> (In case the file is missing, or for the lazy but still curious, I
> have also appended a copy to this message.)
>
> or
>
> 2. Somehow set up a "smart" web-based git server. This seems to
> involve git-http-backend(1); for Apache, there are directions at
> <http://sethrobertson.github.io/HowToPutGitOnTheWeb/GitOnTheWeb.html#aro>
> (and earlier parts of that page).
>
> Choice 2 is clearly more complicated and more httpd-specific, but also
> more efficient in most cases.
I suppose this is something that the overseers would have to look at ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 19:06 Simon Marchi
2014-05-30 1:57 ` Samuel Bronson
2014-05-30 14:48 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2014-05-30 14:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-05-30 15:00 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-30 15:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-05-30 15:21 ` Marc Khouzam
2014-05-30 15:32 ` pinskia
2014-05-30 15:44 ` Simon Marchi
2014-05-30 16:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-05-30 16:53 ` Simon Marchi
2014-05-30 21:05 ` Marc Khouzam
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