[Buildroot] git http access broken ?

[Luca Ceresoli]

Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Aguirre <aguirre.nicolas at gmail.com> writes:
>   Nicolas> Hi,
>   Nicolas> I'm using the git http protocol to update my buildroot tree as i'm
>   Nicolas> behind a proxy, with address found on your website :
>   Nicolas> http://buildroot.uclibc.org/git.html
>
>   Nicolas> but since a few days, it seems broken when i try to update.
>
>   Nicolas> I do something wrong ?
>
> What exactly happens when you try? It works here:
>
> time git clone -v http://git.buildroot.net/git/buildroot.git
> Cloning into 'buildroot'...
> 5.96s user 2.16s system 5% cpu 2:35.53 total
>
> Notice that it is a lot slower than native git:// access:
>
> time git clone -v git://git.buildroot.net/buildroot
> Cloning into 'buildroot'...
> remote: Counting objects: 111019, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41701/41701), done.
> remote: Total 111019 (delta 75790), reused 102807 (delta 68750)
> Receiving objects: 100% (111019/111019), 31.63 MiB | 1.61 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (75790/75790), done.
> 3.03s user 0.83s system 9% cpu 41.150 total
>

It's working here as well, although it took 6 minutes.

However, I sniffed the clone operation with wireshark and noticed many
"404 Not Found" errors. I wonder if it is normal with http access.

Luca