On 2021-10-13, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:25:12 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Yesterday I switched my gentoo repo from rsync to git, and the initial >> --sync with an empty directory did a git clone successfully. >> >> Today, when I try to sync, it always fails: >> >> $ sudo emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into >> '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... /usr/bin/git fetch origin >> error: RPC failed; HTTP 504 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: >> 504 fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly [...]
>> After the initial sync which does a git clone, how do you do >> subsequent sync operations? > > emerge --sync works here. What do you have in repos.conf? I didn't have a sync-depth setting. Setting that to 1 fixed the problem. It was apparently timing out because it takes too long for the server to respond to a fetch with an unlimited depth. Seems like maybe it ought to default to 1? Is there some reason it should default to doing unlimited depth fetch operations? -- Grant
