Ingo Molnar said the following on 2008-10-13 0:59: > * Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:24:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> hm, -tip's .git/hooks/post-update already contained this, for the last 2 >>> months: >>> >>> exec git update-server-info >>> >>> so ... _despite_ us having this in the git repo, the HTTP protocol still >>> does not work. Why? >> I think your problem is that HTTP does not know where to look for >> objects coming from alternates; IIRC this would work if you used >> relative paths in objects/info/alternates, or you can create >> objects/info/http-alternates like >> >> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects >> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects > > ok, i've now set it up like this: > > $ pwd > /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git > > $ cat objects/info/alternates > /home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects > /home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects > > $ cat objects/info/http-alternates > /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects > /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/objects > > and i've added "git update-server-info" to hooks/post-receive and made > it chmod +x. > > that should be golden, right? I'm wondering why this isnt in the default > setup - i've been behind a limited corporate firewall in a former life > and having HTTP access is indeed very handy and pragmatic. Often hotel > WLANs are HTTP only as well. > > Soapbox: in fact it would be outright stupid to limit the kernel > source's availability artificially by not making HTTP a tier-one access > method. > > Fighting against HTTP-only firewalls is like constantly pointing it out > to the popular press that they should say 'cracker' instead of 'hacker'. > It is pointless and only hurts the availability our own project. > Ingo, thank you for your work. I can clone more, but error still occurs: Getting alternates list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git Also look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ Also look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/ Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git error: transfer closed with 8280 bytes remaining to read Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git/ error: Unable to find 95630fe2917f805a26f8d8beaafb80cd2f729eb5 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git Cannot obtain needed object 95630fe2917f805a26f8d8beaafb80cd2f729eb5 -- 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
