[Users] openvz git repo http broken for 2.6.24 - info/refs missing

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at openvz.org
Mon Feb 11 04:27:45 EST 2008


Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> % git clone http://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.24-openvz linux-2.6.24
> Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/linux-2.6.24/.git/
> Cannot get remote repository information.
> Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
> 
> This happens because the file
> http://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.24-openvz/info/refs
> is missing. It's not missing for any of the other repositories,
> so it appears to be a genuine problem.
> 
> Please fix it. TIA.
> 

Do not use http for cloning, it will suffer not only from
the refs file missing, but from anything it doesn't like. E.g.
tight beancounters limit (we hold git repo inside VE), slow
connection, etc. Use git protocol instead.

Thanks,
Pavel


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