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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 33100-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33100: [libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 23:24:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va5w3rtj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in1w90iu.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2018 16:05:13 +0200")

Hi,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> guix build --check /gnu/store/f0i7bdcg1lksr9dhz0cidi3ym8r8a5wl-libssh-0.7.6-checkout.drv
>> building /gnu/store/f0i7bdcg1lksr9dhz0cidi3ym8r8a5wl-libssh-0.7.6-checkout.drv...
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /gnu/store/gqyjgpvzqy55dzibm59530fsx21dpiz4-libssh-0.7.6-checkout/.git/
>> fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities
>
> On closer inspection, it seems that there’s nothing “fatal” here: if you
> let it run for a while (1 or 2 minutes), it ends up silently cloning the
> whole repo and the derivation build eventually succeeds.

It did end up working fine, although it took a large amout of time for
doing what seems to be a checkout (4 min 46 s). I did some experiments
and this is really the time it took to do a full clone of the libssh
project.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
time git clone git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git libssh
Cloning into 'libssh'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 28264, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (28264/28264), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11718/11718), done.
remote: Total 28264 (delta 20985), reused 21830 (delta 16350)s    
Receiving objects: 100% (28264/28264), 5.21 MiB | 263.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (20985/20985), done.

real    4m19.419s
user    0m3.272s
sys     0m0.540s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It's a bit of a shame, given that the shallow clone takes about 2
seconds (!):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
time git clone --depth 1 git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git libssh
Cloning into 'libssh'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 367, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (367/367), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (358/358), done.
remote: Total 367 (delta 39), reused 53 (delta 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (367/367), 704.23 KiB | 728.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (39/39), done.

real    0m2.028s
user    0m0.160s
sys     0m0.071s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Based on the discussion here:
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/6270, it would seem this
means that the libssh git server doesn't support the newer "smart HTTP
transport" and the git client bails out (IIUC). At least in our case the
guile-ssh library seems to already correctly fallback to doing a full
clone.

Perhaps just clearer messages would have helped here also ('Failed to do
a shallow git clone due to ~error message~, falling back to a full clone').

Such a change would need to be made in guile-git IIUC.

I'll close this bug now; thank you!

Maxim

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-21  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-20  2:22 bug#33100: [libssh] fatal: dumb http transport does not support shallow capabilities Maxim Cournoyer
2018-10-20 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-21  3:24   ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2018-10-21 19:10     ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-21 21:42       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-10-22  9:55     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-22 17:07       ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-24 13:01       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-10-24 14:11         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-24 14:15         ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-24 21:33           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-25  1:02             ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-25  1:44             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-10-25 12:24               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-27  2:05                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2018-10-27 14:45                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-29  2:45                     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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