Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

On 3/19/06, Marco Costalba [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi all,

Ciao Marco,

    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.

How about getting an account on kernel.org?

Anyway, here is what I did:
paolo@Italia:~$ cg-clone
http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git qgit defaulting to
local storage area
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
error: File 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
(http://digilander.libero.i
t/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/objects/8d/ea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60)
corr upt

Getting pack list for http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/
Getting index for pack fe1f3586b38e70e963de47f31379ef170adc5ca9
Getting pack fe1f3586b38e70e963de47f31379ef170adc5ca9
 which contains 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
Fetching tags...
Missing tag qgit-0.93... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.94... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.94.1... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.95.1... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.96... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.96.1... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.97... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.97.1... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-0.97.2... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-1.0... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-1.1rc1... retrieved
Missing tag qgit-1.1rc3... retrieved
New branch: 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
Cloned to qgit/ (origin
http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git available as branch
"origin")


Why am I getting this error?
error: File 8dea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60
(http://digilander.libero.i
t/mcostalba/scm/qgit.git/objects/8d/ea03519e75f47da91108330dde3043defddd60)
corr upt


--
Paolo
http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com