git archive fatal: Operation not supported by protocol

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Sly picture Sly · Jun 29, 2012 · Viewed 18.6k times · Source

I'm trying to checkout part of remote git repository. As recommended here, with help of command 

git archive --format=zip --remote=http://path_to_repository

But I'm getting error message:

fatal: Operation not supported by protocol.
Unexpected end of command stream

Git is not supporting this operation with http protocol? Thats a problem of hosting environment or git itself? Any directions would help, thanks.

Answer

J-16 SDiZ picture J-16 SDiZ · Jun 29, 2012

git archive can work with a server with git protocol support (i.e. git server, smart-http and ssh server).

In your case, either your git is too old, or the server is dumb http server (normal http server, without "smart" git support). You need to clone the repository and archive from there.

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