From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem in update from the linux-2.6 repository
Message-ID: <1131401931.5824.149.camel@blade>
In-Reply-To: <1131380293.5824.139.camel@blade>

Hi,

> I run into a weird problem when trying to update my clone of the
> linux-2.6 repository from Linus:
> 
> ---
> # cg-update -f
> 17:09:00 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/HEAD [41/41] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
> Getting alternates list
> Getting pack list
> error: Unable to find 2ed5e6d09e266bd2288d49aaaf240ed8c468c13c under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> 
> Cannot obtain needed object 2ed5e6d09e266bd2288d49aaaf240ed8c468c13c
> while processing commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
> cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
> ---

forget about this thing. The reason for this problem was the kernel.org
mirroring and the repository wasn't in a sane state. However it would be
great if we can detect this somehow.

Regards

Marcel