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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
