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

Josip Rodin joy at entuzijast.net
Mon Feb 11 06:15:31 EST 2008


On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:16:56PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Can't you use native git protocol? That way you won't have to redownload
> whole archive every time someone does git-repack on git.openvz.org
> 
> To switch to git protocol without redownloading change "http" to "git"
> in .git/config -- it seems to work.

Oh, I did use that later, but I still reported the lack of HTTP - because
I'd also like to use it in a place where it's a pain to let through another
protocol through the firewall (and 80/tcp is already there).

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