From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn1313@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partial clone fails with file:/// URI
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:27:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014172746.GB2044338@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8Z4-XGbb_z3vmJYATONmBkxBcfxwyC-_4XEOkP0sxsdT9wxw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Nipunn Koorapati wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been building git from source and directly using the executable. Roughly
> ```
> cd git
> make
> cd ..
> git/git clone --filter=blob:none file://$(pwd)/git a_clone_of_git
> ```
>
> This is what I was missing:
> git config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant true
>
> If this is not set, then the checkout fails w/ a
>
> fatal: protocol error: bad pack header
>
> Perhaps the error message and/or docs could be improved here to
> something with more detail than "bad pack header"?
> Not seeing anything to suggest this in the docs
> https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone
Ah. OK; I feel much better knowing what the difference between our two
setups is. This is a long-standing issue (I remember seeing it when I
was experimenting with partial clones several releases ago) so I'm glad
that we _don't_ have to treat this as a regression in 2.29.
> Thanks for the prompt response. Appreciated!
> --Nipunn
Thanks,
Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 16:38 Partial clone fails with file:/// URI Nipunn Koorapati
2020-10-14 16:56 ` Taylor Blau
2020-10-14 17:04 ` Nipunn Koorapati
2020-10-14 17:27 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-10-14 23:41 ` Nipunn Koorapati
2020-10-15 1:20 ` Jeff King
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