[U-Boot] Git clone using http or rsync broken

[Guillaume Gardet]

Le 21/02/2015 13:19, Nable a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> Rsync isn't mentioned here: http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git/ , this fact
> makes me think that rsync support isn't present.

Ok.

>
> 2.
>> "git clone http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git" just hangs with:
>>   Cloning into 'u-boot'...
> U-Boot repo is very large, so it takes a lot of time and traffic to
> clone it. Are you sure that git clone hangs? It you enable enough
> verbosity, you'll see that git is doing something:
> $ git clone -vvvvvv http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
> Cloning into 'u-boot'...
> Getting alternates list for http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
> Getting pack list for http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
> Getting index for pack 09e0accc51ea3a5c8d84fdf7fe7193bf7c7b51ff
> ...
> You can also use some network activity monitor to see that git is
> silently downloading a lot of information.

Testing again right now and it seems to work fine.

>
> Btw, git:// protocol works fine, do you have any reasons to avoid using it?
>

Here, GIT protocol works fine but on some of my client networks, GIT is unreachable (probably due to proxy or firewall) and thus HTTP must be used instead.


Guillaume