Re: impossible to clone from http

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

On lun., 2011-02-21 at 15:25 +0100, Thomas Bouffon wrote:
> Hi, 
> I'm behind a proxy and can't clone via git://.  A few weeks ago, I
> managed to build gnome-shell, replacing the git repos by http.
> Today I tried to build everything again, but I cannot clone anything
> anymore :  I get : 
>  $ bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh 
> Checking out jhbuild into /home/tbouffon/Source/jhbuild ... fatal:
> http://git.gnome.org/jhbuild/info/refs not found: did you run git
> update-server-info on the server?
> 
> But I can wget refs.
> Has anyone any idea why I get this ?
It's been disabled on purpose because it's taxing on the servers.
Replacement solutions have been discussed, see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-February/msg00107.html


Regards