Re: git-daemon shallow checkout fail

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 05:29:32PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

However the problem driving me crazy is that this only fails this way
on one machine.  Unfortunately failing on the machine I need to use.
If I try this same setup on any other machine I try then there is no
failure and it works okay.  Therefore I conclude that in the failing
case it is trying to write a shallow_XXXXXX file in the repository but
in all of the passing cases it does not.  I browsed through the
git-daemon source but couldn't deduce the flow yet.

Does anyone know why one system would try to create shallow_XXXXXX
files in the repository while another one would not?

It depends on the git version on the server. The interesting code is in
upload-pack.c, which is spawned by git-daemon to serve a fetch or clone
request.

See commit b790e0f67 (upload-pack: send shallow info over stdin to
pack-objects, 2014-03-11), which lays out the history. Since that commit
(in git v2.0.0), there should be no tmpfile needed.

Of course git-daemon running as nobody can't create a temporary file
shallow_XXXXXX in the /srv/git/test-project.git because it has no
permissions by design.  But why does this work on other systems and
not work on my target system?

  git --version  # from today's git clone build
  git version 2.11.0.485.g4e59582

This shouldn't be happening with git v2.11. Are you sure that the "git
daemon" invocation is running that same version? I notice you set up a
restricted PATH. Is it possible that /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin has an
older version of git?

-Peff