On Jan 8, 5:22 pm, Steven Sroka <sroka.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 January 2011 03:13, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen > > You couldn't just use git to pull the repository? > > git would be used, but the compressed tarball would be quicker to > download if the maintainer of the script I was talking about could > program the script to download the tarball first. For efficiencies > sake .) > > Btw, I keep getting this error when I try to clone the Qt repo that I need, > > # kdesrc-build running: 'git' 'clone' '-v' '--' > 'git://gitorious.org/+kde-developers/qt/kde-qt.git' > '/home/steven/kdesrc/qt-copy' > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/steven/kdesrc/qt-copy/.git/ > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > fatal: early EOF > fatal: index-pack failed > > Do you know why Gitorious keeps dropping the connection?
I am the developer of the script Steven is mentioning (kdesrc-build). The problem he has is essentially just that the git clone (not pull, which works ok) for large modules hosted on gitorious.org times out. I had Googled information on this last year (http://lists-archives.org/ git/700614-cannot-clone-redirecting-stdout.html) and instituted a simple workaround in kdesrc-build to simply leave qt-copy's git-clone procedure output to the terminal instead of redirecting it to a log file. The -v flag is also passed for this purpose. I did not report a bug since it appears you all were already aware of the effect. Apparently the workaround is not working in Steven's case however. (I have not had occasion to test re-cloning Qt since, and I'm not particularly eager to start now ;) kdesrc-build includes support for Subversion module bootstrapping via tarball snapshots, which wouldn't be hard to retrofit onto your Git checkouts, which is why I mentioned that as a possibility. Other workarounds are probably acceptable too, just let me know. Ideally if the tarball option is used screen-scraping would not be required to figure out a specific sha1 to download (i.e. it should ideally be possible to download based off of a branch or tag name from the client end) I'm tracking this at KDE bug 262145 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi? id=262145) but I should be receiving replies to this thread as well if you just want to keep the discussion on this group. Thanks for any tips! Regards, - Michael Pyne -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
