On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 02:24:24PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > John Wiegley <johnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hello, I'm using the Builtbot to pull sources from a Git repository, > > and have found that the Buildbot's Git step always uses git-fetch -- a > > detail of Buildbot which I currently have little control over. > > > > This is no problem if the git:// protocol is used, but using fetch > > with http:// doesn't work. This has been mentioned elsewhere: > > > > http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bitbake-dev/2007-November/000765.html > > > > Here's a quick example of what I mean: > > > > cd /tmp ; mkdir foo ; cd foo ; git init > > > > git fetch git://newartisans.com/ledger.git # works fine > > > > cd /tmp ; rm -fr foo ; mkdir foo ; cd foo ; git init > > > > git fetch http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git # fails > > Is this related to this independent observation? > > $ wget http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git > --14:23:54-- http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git > => `ledger.git' > Resolving newartisans.com... 208.70.150.153 > Connecting to newartisans.com|208.70.150.153|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently > Location: http://git.newartisans.com//ledger.git [following] > --14:23:55-- http://git.newartisans.com//ledger.git > => `ledger.git' > Resolving git.newartisans.com... 208.70.150.153 > Connecting to git.newartisans.com|208.70.150.153|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently > Location: http://git.newartisans.com/ledger.git/ [following] > --14:23:55-- http://git.newartisans.com/ledger.git/ > => `index.html' > Connecting to git.newartisans.com|208.70.150.153|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden > 14:23:55 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Probably, but even then, it also doesn't have a HEAD. Mike -- 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