On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:53:56PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I'm trying to create a tarball from a git tag and I can't get the > syntax right. The documentation is not very clear. > [...] > > git archive --format=tar --remote=github.com:dkovar/analyzeMFT.git v2.0.4 Your remote should be git@xxxxxxxxxx:dkovar/analyzeMFT.git. But... > > git archive --format=tar --remote=git://github.com/dkovar/analyzeMFT v2.0.4 > > fatal: remote error > Your Git client has made an invalid request: > 003agit-upload-archive /dkovar/analyzeMFT Your syntax is fine, but GitHub does not support remote git-archive requests. Not over git://, and not over ssh. In both cases the error messages are rather confusing and unhelpful, though. > > git archive --format=tar --remote=//github.com/dkovar/analyzeMFT v2.0.4 This is wrong, as it is looking for //github.com... in the local filesystem. > The github page also says I can use ssh with git as the user, but that > complains I don't have the private key (which I don't): > > git archive --format=tar > --remote=ssh://git@github/com/dkovar/analyzeMFT.git v2.0.4 If you have a GitHub account and register your public key, then you can use ssh to fetch from the repository (using the git@xxxxxxxxxx:user/repo syntax). However, remote git-archive is not currently supported, so it would not help you. -Peff -- 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