Strange differences in cogito on SPARC and i386

From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Oct 17, 2005, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200510171906.j9HJ6AQr015777@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>

git, cogito up to date everywhere.

I updated my linux-2.6.git trees on SPARC and i386 yesterday at almost the same time, and I then noted that on the SPARC I'd get interrupted fetches and stuff like:

  
   [vonbrand@pincoya linux-2.6.git]$ cg-update
   Recovering from a previously interrupted fetch...
   15:04:56 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
   progress: 10 objects, 24166 bytes
   error: Empty reply from server (curl_result = 52, http_code = 0, sha1 = 0801ec7bf4953784f0f3279c1a80258ad29094d6)
   Getting pack list
   progress: 11 objects, 24873 bytes
   error: Unable to find 0801ec7bf4953784f0f3279c1a80258ad29094d6 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/

Just started again each time, seems to work fine. On i386 the download goes smoothly, no hickups. And there are /no/ updates while SPARC is working its head off getting updates...

Then again, today on the SPARC it is getting several thousand objects (!), while on i386 it was only a few dozen.

Some stupid pilot error? Got different mirrors between machines? Sounds unlikely, as repeating the command (and presumably rotating between DNS entries) makes no difference.

Just finished SPARCwise. Almost 10K objects for changes to 4 files?! Yes, the files changed are the same on both machines.

Mistified...

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