From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:40:03 GMT Subject: Re: Problems cloning 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: > Dear diary, on Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:15:47PM CEST, I got a letter > where Nico -telmich- Schottelius 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