Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:

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Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
error: Unable to find fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git

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It looks like git over http isn't following the link somehow to the main
repo?

Yeah, see above.  www.kernel.org does not like to serve /home/ftp/pub/scm
path; it wants to serve it as /pub/scm/linux instead.

Your objects/info/alternates in 2.6.24.y points at /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...
but in 2.6.25.y it has extra /home/ftp in front of it.

A quick fix is obviously to remove the extra prefix but it makes me wonder
how these two "stable" repositories were prepared differently.  Could this
be a regression in "git clone"?  Or perhaps you "clone -s"'s Linus's
repository slightly differently between them?

Errr... isn't it the case for objects/info/http-alternates ?

You do not have to use that http specific hack.  On these machines, /pub
actually points at /home/ftp/pub with a symlink.