From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:15:19 GMT Subject: Re: git cloning fails Message-ID: <20080408201518.GA2584@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:40:14PM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote: > > > 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 > [...] > I've tried 3 times, the git version I am using is 1.5.0.6. Ah, I was able to reproduce with that version. It looks like 1.5.0.6 doesn't properly fetch packed refs over http. IIRC, it _should_ work with that version (RelNotes-1.5.0 mentions packed refs), but there may be a bug. That version is over a year old now, and any bug has long since been fixed; can you upgrade to a more modern git? -Peff