From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:47:18 GMT
Subject: Re: clone git over http fails - Unable to find 1f405709e7341c27e20c0159fb7c17efbf85975c
Message-ID: <237967ef0806111147v4dc82d24sbe02338d428a4287@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1033a22d0806110758mdec211dr21e0115e0eb1fb2@mail.gmail.com>

2008/6/11 John Yesberg <john.yesberg@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to clone the git repository, but I'm behind an http proxy.
> I'm using v1.5.5.1015.g9d258 (the msys distro)
>   $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> seems to collect files in a different order each time, but always
> fails at some point with:
>   error: Unable to find 1f405709e7341c27e20c0159fb7c17efbf85975c
> under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>
> Am I doing something silly?

IIRC, there was some bug in the http clone code some time ago, maybe the
msysgit repo is still based of some commit where it wasn't fixed yet. Or
it could be something completely different of course.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson