problem with http clone/pull

Junio,

Users are having problems doing clones or pulls of my powerpc.git tree on kernel.org with version 1.4.2 of git. Apparently earlier versions work OK.

When I do:

git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git

it produces the following output:

Getting alternates list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/ Also look at http://git.kernel.or error: Couldn't resolve host 'git.kernel.orobjects' (curl_result = 6, http_code = 0, sha1 = c336923b668fdcf0312efbec3b44895d713f4d81) Getting pack list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/ Getting pack list for http://git.kernel.or error: Couldn't resolve host 'git.kernel.or' error: Unable to find c336923b668fdcf0312efbec3b44895d713f4d81 under http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git/ Cannot obtain needed none c336923b668fdcf0312efbec3b44895d713f4d81 while processing commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

Now, this repository has a objects/info/alternates file that contains the single line:

/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects

I also have a hooks/post-update with execute permission, that does exec git-update-server-info.

Is there anything obviously wrong in how I have set this up, or is it a new bug in git 1.4.2?

Thanks, Paul.