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Re: git clone through http
- From: Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 21:35:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: git clone through http
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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.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# An example hook script to prepare a packed repository for use over
# dumb transports.
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "post-update".
exec git update-server-info