From: Evgeniy Polyakov Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:59:09 GMT Subject: Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning. Message-ID: <20080719195909.GA5093@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <7v8wvx211n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi Junio. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:15:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano (gitster@pobox.com) wrote: > > The repository you are cloning uses pack idx version #2; 1.4.4.4 predates it > > by a wide margin. > > By the way, Debian folks are very aware of the issue and already has a > backported material to cut a 1.4.4.5, but I do not know what the release > schedule for their update is. > > Is it an option for you to update to a more modern version from say > backports.org? Everybody using git for anything serious should be using > 1.5.3 or newer these days. It is very development test machine, there is no need to use git at all, it is just a convenient way to get a needed version via 'git clone; git reset'. I posted it so it would be stored in archive, that old enough git version does not work with recent trees, so one should upgrade if this error occures. -- Evgeniy Polyakov