Re: http git and curl 7.16.0

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Horst H. von Brand" [off-list ref] writes:

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Sven Verdoolaege [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:07:08AM +0400, George Sherwood wrote:

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I seem to be having a problem doing an http checkout with git built
with curl 7.16.0 enabled.  If I build against curl 7.16.0 and try a
clone, I get:

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git clone http://dmlb2000.homelinux.org/~dmlb2000/git-repos/local/castfs.git
error: Unable to start request error: Could not interpret heads/master
as something to pull

If I rebuild git against curl 7.15.5 then I get:

[..]

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and the checkout finishes.

Has any one else seen this?

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FWIW, I've seen the same with curl 7.16.0 on a Solaris 9 machine.
It worked fine with curl 7.15.0.

It works fine for me on Aurora Corona (sparc) with curl-7.15.5-1.al3, while
it fails as above on Fedora rawhide (i386) with curl-7.16.0-4.fc7.

Furthermore, with new curl pulling from HTTP repos when there are updates
gives double free errors and a crash.

Hmmm.  Could somebody please run http-fetch under gdb and see
where it breaks?  The exact command line you need to use would
be obtainable by running "sh -x git-clone" once.

It crashes the kernel for me here :-(

I tried to chop down a tig repo a few commits from the top for checking out
the crash I'm seeing (only when pulling from a remote repo by HTTP, and it
is not up to date here) by doing:

  cp -r tig tig.tst
  cd tig.tst
  git reset --hard HEAD~3
  git prune

But now git-pull /doesn't/ fetch anything, so I see no crash. What am I
doing wrong here?
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