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

[Bob Benites]

I tried that, but I was impatient. Sorry. If I'd let it
run to completion and then done a ls -a, I would
have seen the 130Mb .git directory grow
ever so slowly.

Thanks for your assistance, and please excuse my
impatience. :-(

-- Bob

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Charlie Arnold
<charlie.arnold at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
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