On Thu, 21 May 2009, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > > are your friends hosting non-bare repositories directly (with > checked-out copies)? In the first place, this isn't a good idea; Yes, and yes we all know that this is discouraged. There are two bugs. Git's error message is misleading: the problem is nothing to do with running git update-server-info (see below). Its behaviour is inconsistent: git retries after appending .git if you are fetching from a local repository or ssh:// or git:// URLs but not for http:// URLs. $ git clone http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/rjk/.git/ fatal: http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk//info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server? Actually maybe there's a third bug: it says it has initialized a repository but it removes it again if the clone fails. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html