Re: Problem in update from the linux-2.6 repository

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 7, 2005, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20051107222353.GV1431@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1131401931.5824.149.camel@blade>

Hi,

Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:18:51PM CET, I got a letter where Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> told me that...

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> > 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?

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