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

Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:26:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

However, I think /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ would
result in the same breakage, and that is something I consider gravely
broken.

Yeah, especially as I never realized that /pub/ was a symlink in the
first place :)

And it was even worse than that.  Even if you knew /pub was a symlink, you
could not have done anything about it, short of editing the alternates
file in the resulting repository by hand.

Up until now, that is.

Daniel's patch seems to fix the issue for me and it will be included in
tonight's pushout among other fixes.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:00:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:26:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

However, I think /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ would
result in the same breakage, and that is something I consider gravely
broken.

Yeah, especially as I never realized that /pub/ was a symlink in the
first place :)

And it was even worse than that.  Even if you knew /pub was a symlink, you
could not have done anything about it, short of editing the alternates
file in the resulting repository by hand.

Heh, true :)

Up until now, that is.

Daniel's patch seems to fix the issue for me and it will be included in
tonight's pushout among other fixes.

Great, thanks a lot for the fix everyone.

greg k-h