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Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 31, 2009, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20090831190827.GA4876@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<fabb9a1e0908311012q4cea2d51i2c2f0cbceac0cab@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:12:44PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 18:41, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > IIRC, the message you are seeing comes when the _server_ is an older
> > version of git. It is harmless, though.
> 
> Mhhhh, is it some weird interaction between 'empty repository' patch
> and old server versions, or did this happen too before my patch was
> applied?

I think the former. I thought it was discussed before, but the only reference I can find is this (see the end of the email):

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107626
and I don't see any followup for that specific part of the mail.
-Peff
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  1. Sitaram ChamartyAug 31, 2009
  2. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  3. Sitaram ChamartyAug 31, 2009
  4. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  5. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  6. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  7. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  8. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  9. Matthieu MoyAug 31, 2009
  10. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  11. Björn SteinbrinkAug 31, 2009
  12. Jeff KingAug 31, 2009
  13. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  14. Jeff KingSep 1, 2009
  15. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  16. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  17. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  18. clone: disconnect transport after fetchingJeff King, Sep 2, 2009
  19. Sverre RabbelierSep 2, 2009
  20. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  21. Sverre RabbelierSep 2, 2009
  22. Daniel BarkalowSep 2, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2009
  24. Jeff KingSep 4, 2009
  25. Sitaram ChamartySep 2, 2009

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