Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:06:02AM -0500, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:15:02AM +0000, Anand Kumria wrote:

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OK, I was finally able to reproduce your bug. It seems that it _only_
happens when using curl built against gnutls. I built against the
libcurl4-openssl-dev in Debian unstable, and the problem goes away.

Thanks for figuring out how to reproduce it ... how did you btw?

I saw the gnutls error message in your output and took a guess that it
was related. I was able to reproduce against the first https repository
that I tried (I don't think it has anything to do with the repository).

I wish we could more certainly blame it on something besides git,
though. I can't reproduce it using just 'curl', so it's possible that
there is a problem with the way git is calling libcurl.

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It appears that git 1.5.3.8 on Debian links to libcurl3-gnutls whereas, 
at least for me, git 1.5.4 on Debian links to libcurl4-gnutls 
(or libcurl4-openssl).

I agree with you, it is a bit problematic when the library (curl) relies
on another library (gnutls) and the bottom one is having a problem.

It would be nice if we could generate a minimal test case that
demonstrates the problem, but I can't seem to reproduce it with a
smaller program. If we could, then we could probably get advice from
curl and/or gnutls people.

Did you try to run with the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variable set ?

Mike