Re: Partial clone fails with file:/// URI

[Nipunn Koorapati <nipunn1313@gmail.com>]

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

Thanks for the prompt response. Appreciated!
--Nipunn

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:56 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nipunn,
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:38:15PM +0100, Nipunn Koorapati wrote:
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > When I run a git clone with --filter and a file:/// URI - it fails.
> >
> > Repro steps:
> >
> > I have the `git` repo cloned and built into the CWD at v2.28.0
> > git/git clone --filter=blob:none file:///home/nipunn/src/git git2
>
> I couldn't quite reproduce this. Here's my reproduction:
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>
>   rm -fr repo clone
>   git init repo
>
>   (
>     cd repo
>
>     git config uploadpack.allowfilter true
>     git config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant true
>
>     for f in a b; do
>       echo $f > $f
>       git add $f
>       git commit -m "$f: initial commit"
>     done
>   )
>
>   git clone --filter=blob:none file://$(pwd)/repo clone
>
> That works on v2.28.0, and v2.29.0 for me. Is git installed properly on
> your system?
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor