From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:23:53 GMT Subject: Re: Problem in update from the linux-2.6 repository 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 told me that... > > 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? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.