On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 09:31:06PM -0800, Yuri wrote: > Why "operation is not supported" through http and https? 'archive' is > supposed to be the most efficient operation to get the specific snapshot of > the repository, and it should be available without authentication. Remote git-archive is not well-supported. It does work over git-daemon, but the server side has to explicitly turn it on in their config. It was never plumbed into the git-over-http protocol at all. ssh is generally the only place it works out-of-the-box (but see below). > In case of ssh with the key there is the strange error message about > "core.gitProxy". What is this about? I am not using a proxy. > [...] > # through ssh with an active ssh key > $ git archive --format=tar --remote=git@xxxxxxxxxx:yurivict/vm-to-tor.git > Invalid command: 'git-upload-archive 'yurivict/vm-to-tor.git'' > You appear to be using ssh to clone a git:// URL. > Make sure your core.gitProxy config option and the > GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable are NOT set. > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly This message isn't from git, but rather from GitHub's ssh server. You can see it here without running git locally at all: $ ssh git@xxxxxxxxxx git-upload-archive Invalid command: 'git-upload-archive' You appear to be using ssh to clone a git:// URL. Make sure your core.gitProxy config option and the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable are NOT set. The short of it is that GitHub does not support remote git-archive at all, not even over ssh. Part of the reason is that it maintains a separate caching layer for grabbing zips and tarballs, which is available at an http endpoint: https://github.com/yurivict/vm-to-tor/archive/master.tar.gz Clearly the advice above is not helpful in this case; I don't recall the case that it was originally written to help. You may want to write to GitHub support about it. > # through ssh without an ssh key > $ git archive --format=tar --remote=git@xxxxxxxxxx:yurivict/vm-to-tor.git > Permission denied (publickey). > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly GitHub's ssh server only accepts key authentication, so this is not surprising. > # through https > $ git archive --format=tar > --remote=https://github.com/yurivict/vm-to-tor.git > fatal: Operation not supported by protocol. > > # through http > $ git archive --format=tar > --remote=http://github.com/yurivict/vm-to-tor.git > fatal: Operation not supported by protocol. This comes from the local git client. There's no scheme defined for hitting git-upload-archive (the server side of a remote git-archive) over HTTP. You'd have to define it, implement the client side of it, and then convince the server side to configure their HTTP servers to handle it as a CGI. That might be a nice project to work on, but it will not get you tarballs anytime soon. :) -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