On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Bob Benites <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > 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). _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
