[Debichem-devel] alioth-based debichem.git seems to be un-clonable ?

[Michael Banck]

Hi Filippo,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 08:24:27PM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> I am trying to clone the debichem.git repos at
> alioth:/git/debichem/debichem.git but this is what I get when issuing
> this command:
> 
> git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/debichem/debichem.git
> Cloning into 'debichem'...
> warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
> Checking connectivity... done.

I have to admit I haven't tried that yet, nor do I remember from the top
of my head who setup the git repository back then (it wasn't me).

Did this work before?

> rusconi at roma:/tmp$ ls -la debichem/
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x  3 rusconi rusconi 4096 Jan 15 20:21 .
> drwxrwxrwt 14 root    root    4096 Jan 15 20:22 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  7 rusconi rusconi 4096 Jan 15 20:21 .git
> 
> 
> Note that
> 
> git clone lopippo at git.debian.org:/git/debichem/packages/massxpert.git
> 
> works just fine with the usual output:
> 
> remote: Counting objects: 12799, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2412/2412), done.
> .....
> 
> What is going on, have I missed something ?

Could be that it never really worked and people are supposed to checkout
package-specific repositories.

Maybe one of the people on this list who are affiliated with other
groups (debian-med, debian-science) using git can comment on whether
this is supposed to work in general.


Best,

Michael