On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, John Wiegley wrote: > 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 > > This is happening with git-1.5.5 on the server, Apache 2.2 and git-1.5.5.1 on > the client. John mentioned on IRC that clone works. $ git-ls-remote http://newartisans.com/git/ledger.git 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530 refs/heads/master 365baca5174232cc35e4ed190fd8ce93c3611c84 refs/heads/v2.4.1 f972a89073843fdbb2a1bef969d9ca70509d4bfe refs/heads/v2.5 6a81d760dc4ab9028b27430124702c28c0b894ed refs/tags/cvs-20040410 fed3956a310a2ea8c8595b7fde7aaa0623492ca6 refs/tags/v0.1 ... $ git-ls-remote git://newartisans.com/ledger.git 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530 HEAD 96751442d9eda537480867e599e4c604663f4530 refs/heads/master 365baca5174232cc35e4ed190fd8ce93c3611c84 refs/heads/v2.4.1 f972a89073843fdbb2a1bef969d9ca70509d4bfe refs/heads/v2.5 6a81d760dc4ab9028b27430124702c28c0b894ed refs/tags/cvs-20040410 fed3956a310a2ea8c8595b7fde7aaa0623492ca6 refs/tags/v0.1 ... Looks like either server-info.c:update_info_refs() needs to also list HEAD, or transport.c:get_refs_via_curl() needs to guess that $url/HEAD exists and fetch it to add to the list, or both. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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
