The savannah.gnu.org admins are trying out the git "smart http" server, but it doesn't seem to handle http redirects properly... should it? Is this a bug with the git server? The follow is from Sylvain Beucler; > Hmmm, actually it works, but it doesn't support a HTTP redirect > (namely git.sv.gnu.org -> git.savannah.gnu.org). > > $ git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/freedink.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/freedink/.git/ > error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 405 > ^C > > $ git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/freedink.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/freedink/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 5528, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 11% (174/1578) This is the response I get from git.sv.gnu.org manually: $ telnet git.sv.gnu.org http Trying 140.186.70.72... Connected to git.sv.gnu.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET /r/freedink.git HTTP/1.1 Host: git.sv.gnu.org HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:03:27 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 mod_wsgi/2.5 Location: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/freedink.git Content-Length: 389 Content-Type: elided-to-get-past-vger's-filter; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/freedink.git";>here</a>.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 mod_wsgi/2.5 Server at git.sv.gnu.org Port 80</address> </body></html> Connection closed by foreign host. Thanks, -Miles -- XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it. -- 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