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Re: git cloning fails

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 8, 2008, 13:13 UTC
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<20080408131347.GB22623@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:00:20AM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote:
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> While cloning git repository
> 
> git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 
> I've received the following message:
> 
> got 33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77
> error: Couldn't get
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
> tags/gitgui-0.6.0
> The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull

This works just fine for me. Which git version are you using? Does the problem still exist if you try again? If that URL did in fact return a 404, it sounds more like a kernel.org problem.

-Peff
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