On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:09:02PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The current intelligent fetch currently has a problem that it cannot > be used to bootstrap a repository. If you don't have an ancestor > of what you are fetching you can't fetch it. >
Not sure if this is what you want, but you could use the following gitweb patch (to be applied on top of my previous patches) to get a git tree snapshot for bootstrapping. http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.cgi?p=gitweb.git;a=summary http://www.liacs.nl/~sverdool/gitweb.git/ skimo -- Support pack snapshots. --- commit f76a442a0e2166b3f17db0e496545a600a33f94c tree f8f089ab738864e69e0155b10262dbec832b4a11 parent 8392280de17a89a451c1f7db4e268f2047d4aa83 author Sven Verdoolaege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:56:42 +0200 committer Sven Verdoolaege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:56:42 +0200 gitweb.cgi | 11 ++++++++--- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitweb.cgi b/gitweb.cgi --- a/gitweb.cgi +++ b/gitweb.cgi @@ -2058,8 +2058,9 @@ sub git_snapshot { "<th></th>\n" . "</tr>\n"; my %types = ( - 'Bzipped tar archive' => 'tar.bz2', - 'Gzipped tar archive' => 'tar.gz', + 'Source tree (bzipped tar archive)' => 'tar.bz2', + 'Source tree (gzipped tar archive)' => 'tar.gz', + 'Git tree (pack file)' => 'pack', ); my $alternate = 0; for my $type (sort keys %types) { @@ -2094,6 +2095,7 @@ sub git_serve_snapshot { my %info = ( 'tar.bz2' => [ 'application/x-bzip2', 'bzip2' ], 'tar.gz' => [ 'application/x-gzip', 'gzip' ], + 'pack' => [ 'application/x-git-pack' ], ); if (!exists $info{$st}) { die_error(undef, "Unknown snapshot type."); @@ -2101,7 +2103,10 @@ sub git_serve_snapshot { my ($type, $zip) = @{$info{$st}}; print $cgi->header(-type => $type, -attachment => "$project-$hash.$st"); - open my $fd, "-|", "$gitbin/git-tar-tree $hash '$project-$hash' | $zip" + open my $fd, "-|", ($st eq 'pack' ? + "$gitbin/git-rev-list --max-count=1 --objects $hash | ". + "$gitbin/git-pack-objects --stdout" : + "$gitbin/git-tar-tree $hash '$project-$hash' | $zip") or return; undef $/; print <$fd>; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
