Cloning from sites with 404 overridden
From: Marco Costalba <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:21
Hi all,
I have set a git repository on a hosted public site:
http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git
I cannot run any process (read git-daemon) on that site, so git-clone uses
a 'dumb server' type protocol and this is what I got.
$ git clone http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git
error: File 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
(http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/objects/8d/ea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60)
corrupt
Getting pack list for http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/
Getting index for pack fe1f3586b38e70e963de47f31379ef170adc5ca9
Getting pack fe1f3586b38e70e963de47f31379ef170adc5ca9
which contains 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
walk 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
walk ec47dab590fb838ba2be7af5bf9aa46d9f2e502d
-------------- cut ------------------------
walk 907d47e836f4f174386d02d21e38aeafc1e79626
walk 5d3454248bbb3aaba080057dc9666a3c3aaeca1f
$
The above mentioned error belongs to git requests a non existing object
(8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60) _and_ the site answers with
a pre-canned 'page not found' html page instead of reporting 404 error.
After some research I found it is quite common for public hosting
sites to use a pre-canned
'Sorry, no page here' html stuff instead of 404.
So my request is if it is possible for git to _learn_ this and to
avoid been fooled by
these kind of public sites.
Thanks
Marco