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

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:15:31PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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).

http should work fine now.