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Re: git clone through http


On Thu 29 May 2014 09:35:50 PM EDT, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Cloning the binutils-gdb repository using the http address
>> (http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git) doesn't seem to work.
>>
>> $ git clone http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
>> Cloning into 'binutils-gdb'...
>> error: Unable to get pack index
>> http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-40a278cd270f8215e6b993869d659b2aff311eb8.idx
> [...]
>
> Such messages indicate that, in order for http access to work, someone
> either needs to:
>
>   1. Rename/copy the file "hooks/post-update.sample" in the repository
>      to "hooks/post-update" to allow use of the "dumb" git protocol.
>      (In case the file is missing, or for the lazy but still curious, I
>      have also appended a copy to this message.)
>
> or
>
>   2. Somehow set up a "smart" web-based git server.  This seems to
>      involve git-http-backend(1); for Apache, there are directions at
>      <http://sethrobertson.github.io/HowToPutGitOnTheWeb/GitOnTheWeb.html#aro>
>      (and earlier parts of that page).
>
> Choice 2 is clearly more complicated and more httpd-specific, but also
> more efficient in most cases.

I suppose this is something that the overseers would have to look at ?


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