On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:05:45PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dimarts, 10 de gener de 2012, a les 22:33:44, Carlos Martín Nieto va > escriure: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:18:41PM +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > CC me on answers since i'm not subscribed to the list > > > > > > Hi, one of our [KDE] anongit servers was updated to 1.7.8.1 and not the > > > syntax > > > > > > git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/repo.git HEAD:path > > > > This syntax is no longer allowed due to some security tightening. Use > > the alternate syntax > > > > git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/repo.git HEAD -- path > > Unfortunately this producess a tarball with a different layout, e.g. > > git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/kgraphviewer.git HEAD:doc/en_US > gives me a tarball with the doc/en_US files in the root > > git archive --remote=git://anongit.kde.org/kgraphviewer.git HEAD -- doc/en_US > gives me a tarball with the doc/en_US folders and then the files > > Is there a way to keep the old behaviour or do we need to update our scripts? Not as far as I know. However, the commit that hardened the input (ee27ca4a781844: archive: don't let remote clients get unreachable commits, 2011-11-17) does state that HEAD:doc/en_US should be valid, so it looks like it's actually a regression. As it's bedtime in my timezone, I'm blaming Peff and I'll look into this if it hasn't been fixed by the time I get to the office tomorrow. > > Thanks for the fast answer! > > Albert > > > > > > does not seem to return a valid tar archive anymore when it did work > > > previously. In fact the man page of my version has that syntax in one of > > > the examples. > > > > That sounds like a documentation bug. Notice that the syntax is for the local case, not for --remote. cmn
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