From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:28:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem in update from the linux-2.6 repository
Message-ID: <1131402521.5824.154.camel@blade>
In-Reply-To: <20051107222353.GV1431@pasky.or.cz>

Hi Petr,

> > > 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.
> 
>   well, we did detect this and error out. ;-) What else would you like
> GIT/Cogito to do? Anything particular that could make this less
> confusing?

I actually have no real idea, but the "object fetch failed" doesn't tell
me anything besides that an object seems to be missing. Maybe this is a
problem we have to live with when using the kernel.org mirroring.

Regards

Marcel