From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:08:27 GMT
Subject: Re: clong an empty repo over ssh causes (harmless) fatal
Message-ID: <20090831190827.GA4876@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0908311012q4cea2d51i2c2f0cbceac0cab@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:12:44PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> 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