[csw-maintainers] Problem with GIT repository cloning at github

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

I wanted to update a package which pulls a treeish directly from github and it doesn't
seem to work any more. The mechanism in GAR is based on "git archive" something like
  git archive --remote=git://github.com/blair/orca.git
The answer from the upstream repo is
  fatal: git archive: protocol error
and when I truss the git command the upstream server communication looks like this:

7563:   write(5, 0x001E1E71, 55)                        = 55
7563:      0 0 3 7 g i t - u p l o a d - a r c h i v e   / b l a i r / o r
7563:      c a . g i t\0 h o s t = g i t h u b . c o m\0
7563:   write(5, " 0 0 0 0", 4)                         = 4
7563:   read(4, " 0 0 9 5", 4)                          = 4
7563:   read(4, 0xFFBEF678, 145)                        = 145
7563:      E R R  \n     Y o u r   G i t   c l i e n t   h a s   m a d e  
7563:      a n   i n v a l i d   r e q u e s t :\n     0 0 3 7 g i t - u p
7563:      l o a d - a r c h i v e   / b l a i r / o r c a . g i t\0 h o s
7563:      t = g i t h u b . c o m\0\n     E m a i l   s u p p o r t @ g i
7563:      t h u b . c o m   f o r   h e l p

Has this been disabled for github? Or has something else changed?


Best regards

  -- Dago

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