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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 02.03.2012 um 22:08 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Fri Mar 02 16:04:41 -0500 2012:
>> 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:
> 
> I had talked with Sebastian about removing this but it didn't get
> yanked out yet.  So if it's not working then either a change in git or
> some other error is the cause.
> 
> The path should be (pseudo):
> 
> git fetch --bare /path/to/local.git

...and the local git should be in /home/src? And if it there should an update be done?

> git archive --bare /path/to/local.git --stdout | tar -xvf $(WORKSRC)
> 
> or something similar.
> 
> I can look at this in the evening.  I assume it's the orca package?

Yes, indeed. Would be cool.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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