Re: Problems cloning

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Date: Oct 12, 2005, 11:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20051012114003.GB29589@vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051012081908.GK30889@pasky.or.cz>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:15:47PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> told me that...
> > Cloning gitweb from kernel.org fails:
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > [16:10] hydrogenium:build% cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git 
> > defaulting to local storage area
> > 16:10:35 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git/HEAD [41/41] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
> > progress: 84 objects, 295012 bytes
> > Getting pack list
> > Getting alternates list
> > error: Unable to find d263a6bd453df849c9f9211f1966c830c3cf913a under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git/
> > 
> > Cannot obtain needed commit d263a6bd453df849c9f9211f1966c830c3cf913a
> > while processing commit f5dfb3f6a6655d4d60fdd0aaeef7b5b14226147f.
> > cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
> > cg-clone: fetch failed
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Info:
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > [16:01] hydrogenium:cinit% cg --version
> > cogito-0.15.1 (cfeac5893d97b830ac31b9d41951c30f80967410)
> > 
> > [16:13] hydrogenium:cinit% git --version
> > git version 0.99.7d
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It seems that the gitweb repository is broken wrt. fetching over HTTP,
> since it does not have the "dumb server info" containing the list of
> packs. Someone needs to run git-update-server-info over there.

Sure, I use plain rsync. Never tried any of the tools that maintain this info. :)

Kay