On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 07:03:36AM +0000, Sven wrote: > Hi > > Following up my recent post, I'm now pretty sure this is a bug. Apparently, > ls-remote does not list the HEAD version when used over HTTP(S) whereas it does > work otherwise. Check this out: > > over HTTP - no HEAD listed here: > git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git > > over GIT - HEAD is listed in this case: > git ls-remote git://github.com/lux/sitellite.git > > As Capistrano relies on "git ls-remote http://git.domain.com/repo.git HEAD" to > find out which version to pull, you can't deploy from Git over HTTP(S) repos for > now. Capistrano is the de facto standard for deploying Ruby on Rails (and > related) web applications. > > Thanks a lot for looking into this!! (My knowledge unfortunately doesn't allow > me to submit a patch myself.) $ GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git HEAD * Couldn't find host www.kernel.org in the .netrc file, using defaults * About to connect() to www.kernel.org port 80 (#0) * Trying 204.152.191.37... * Connected to www.kernel.org (204.152.191.37) port 80 (#0) > GET /pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.5.5.4 Host: www.kernel.org Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:08:36 GMT < Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) < Last-Modified: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:04:30 GMT < ETag: "14225449-66de-44f9954509380" < Accept-Ranges: bytes < Content-Length: 26334 < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 < * Expire cleared * Connection #0 to host www.kernel.org left intact http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs doesn't contain HEAD. Shouldn't it ? 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
