[FFmpeg-user] git error message for download of ff

[Charlie Arnold]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Bob Benites <benites at unca.edu> wrote:

> Sorry if this has already been covered. I checked in the archives
> before posting this request.
>
> I was attempting to build ffmpeg using the instructions
> on this page:
>
>    https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos
>
> When I got to the instructions for ffmpeg itself, I tried
> running the suggested command:
>
>    git clone --depth 1 http://source.ffmpeg.org/git/ffmpeg.git
>
> But saw this error when I did:
>
> # git clone --depth 1 http://source.ffmpeg.org/git/ffmpeg.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/ffmpeg_sources/ffmpeg/.git/
> fatal: dumb http transport does not support --depth
>
> I've never had any problems with any of the other git
> command retrievals, however the others used "git://" as
> opposed to "http://"
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -- Bob
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You can just eliminate "depth" .. it will download a lot more history, but
it's still not all that big (I recently pulled from github and the repo is
about 200 MB).