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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 788750] [NEW] bzr-git does not work in https vis-a-vis pycrypto.git

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 17:34 +0000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> This command:
>
> bzr branch https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto.git
>
> hangs for a few minutes, and eventually aborts with this error message:
>
> bzr: ERROR: Invalid http response for
> https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto.git/info/refs: Bad status line
> received
github doesn't support "dumb" access to git repositories, it only
supports the smart server protocol but dulwich/bzr-git doesn't yet.

You can use git:// instead, which they also support.

this is a dupe, but I don't have the right bug # here (offline atm).

Cheers,

jelmer