[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] fetch/git: Change to use clearer ssh url syntax for broken servers

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 13:37 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Some servers, e.g. bitbucket.org can't cope with ssh:// as part of
> > the git url syntax. git itself is happy enough with this but you
> > get server side errors when using it.
> > 
> > This changes the git fetcher to use the more common ssh url format
> > which also means we need a : before the path.
> 
> This seems to break SRC_URIs using ssh to access self hosted git
> servers setup following the process described here:
> 
>   https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Ser
> ver
> 
> An example of such a SRC_URI, which now fails to work:
> 
>   SRC_URI = "git
> ://git at mylocalserver.com:/opt/git/myrepo.git;protocol=ssh"

Does:

SRC_URI = "git://git@mylocalserver.com/opt/git/myrepo.git;protocol=ssh"

work though?

I'm not sure we ever suggested people should use ":/" in SRC_URI since
that isn't a url format the system was ever designed to cope with. It
might have happened to work but that is different...

Cheers,

Richard