RE: git clone through http

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Marchi
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:48 PM
> To: Joel Brobecker
> Cc: [email protected]; Frank Ch. Eigler; Samuel Bronson;
> [email protected]; [email protected]; Marc Khouzam
> Subject: Re: git clone through http
> 
> On Fri 30 May 2014 11:44:46 AM EDT, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> >> I am not sure I understand. Making a local mirror is basically
> >> cloning the repository, which we can't do with the current limitations.
> >
> > I am guessing you would be creating a local mirror using tools outside
> > of your framework, and then use that local mirror from your framework?
> >
> > Regardless, it sounds like http-based cloning and update is actually
> > working, as someone else said, so perhaps it was just a glitch?
> 
> Still doesn't work for me, although it's not always the hash that fail. Also, I get
> some connection time out sometimes.
> 
> From work computer (through mean corporate proxy):
> 
> $ git clone http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git lalala Cloning into
> 'lalala'...
> error: Unable to get pack index http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-
> gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-40a278cd270f8215e6b993869d659b2aff311eb8.idx
> error: Unable to find b585a9fad59f9d0c07681778b97d36b67bd9748d under
> http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
> Cannot obtain needed object b585a9fad59f9d0c07681778b97d36b67bd9748d
> while processing commit 522c09bf63a4b235e6fde07a5e389f2a533cfe0f.
> error: Fetch failed.
> 
> From university server I somehow still have access to:
> 
> $ git clone http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git lalala Cloning into
> 'lalala'...
> error: Unable to get pack file http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-
> gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-1175e0f6cbb493af3d9ead3010ac0f4caaf3f6f0.pack
> Failed to connect to sourceware.org port 80: Connection timed out
> error: Unable to find 904361fcd43fa933b5f7f2a9d32bfc8eb2b07e7d under
> http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
> Cannot obtain needed blob 904361fcd43fa933b5f7f2a9d32bfc8eb2b07e7d
> while processing commit c4086213966a0465f7600f8bf652e3692e9ff92e.
> error: Fetch failed.
> 
> From home:
> 
> $ git clone http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
> Cloning into 'binutils-gdb'...
> error: Unable to get pack index http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-
> gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-16b3a2186e2cf0ac2fd7beb4480c50d23080cc32.idx
> error: Unable to get pack index http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-
> gdb.git/objects/pack/pack-
> d5403beeca91e793aa19e4e6725b86b0cd0382bd.idx
> error: Unable to find d3e2080fb50a3c637779ba660b92281e7aef32ef under
> http://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
> Cannot obtain needed blob d3e2080fb50a3c637779ba660b92281e7aef32ef
> while processing commit f86ff23fd44ed9131ffb165fa9dc733b90f0931c.
> error: Fetch failed.

I'm also getting similar errors.
I believe it worked at the beginning of the week, and I got the repo cloned by
my Jenkins job.  Not long after (the same afternoon or the day after) it didn't
work anymore.

Thanks for the help

Marc