Hi.
I have a slow internet connection with pay per megabyte. I wanted to
git clone a single branch of ffmpeg to save myself, and ffmpeg.org
bandwidth costs.
I was able to look up the branches available:
bash-4.3$ git ls-remote http://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg
...
cfff8a663c2746f6aae3e102e562dcb46280381d refs/tags/n3.2.1
7facc70ee9483ca49d0dd114f387716cd46cefd5 refs/tags/n3.2.2
b4c2500cd2c92e9c1cf2fac293723bf11c696e0d refs/tags/n3.2.3
So, I know git is working. But, when I tried to download a branch with
shallow copy .... the command fails.
bash-4.3$ git clone --depth=1 --branch "n3.2.2" --single-branch
http://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg ffmpeg
Cloning into 'ffmpeg'...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: protocol error: bad pack header
I upgraded my git tools, and it still fails.
When I try a shallow branch copy for other software, it works. The mode
is just broken with the ffmpeg site.
The ffmpeg site only allows a full clone, which is a very large file
transfer.
I did a lot of googling; apparently the bug is in recent versions of git
where the *server* side program does not have enough memory, and tries
to write a temporary file.
eg: it's misconfigured. if the ramdrive or temporary drive has the
wrong permissions; the server crashes and the client gets the error
message I am receiving.
I tried to register with ffmpeg in order to make a bug report, but the
system captcha failed and I was blacklisted as a spammer.
That's very annoying.
If anyone cares about the ffmpeg's costs in hosting git, would you mind
trying to clone using --depth=1 and see if you get the same error as I do?
If you do, would you mind telling the appropriate system administrator
their server has a problem.
Thanks.
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