On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Gerald Ruescher wrote: > > stupid newbie question: No, I think it's just a "http is stupid", not the newbie. > I'm trying to clone Linus' kernel tree using git 1.5.1. > Since I'm behind a firewall which blocks the git port I use: > > git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git I prune and pack my refs, and I don't think the stupid http-protocol ever got support for packed refs. It should be easy to do, but somebody needs to do it. It won't be me. I'm not a huge fan of the http protocol ;^p Linus - 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