Re: [BUG] Cloning with git HEAD fails for some repositories

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 09:21:14AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Jeff,
>>>
>>> In message <20190322071231.GA26114@sigill.intra.peff.net> you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> However, so does the parent of 17966c0a63d. So I don't know if the
>>>> u-boot-efi repo is just broken, or if there's some other different bug
>>>> at play.
>>>
>>> git fsck reports a number of dangling tags, but no other issues:
>>
>> Weird. I had set http.maxrequests to "1" to give more readable output
>> from GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, etc. It fails with that setting, but not with the
>> default of 5. Which certainly seems like a bug, but one that has been
>> there for a while (at least since v2.9.x, which I tested).
>
> I couldn't reproduce an error after porting your patch to
> master (commit 041f5ea1cf987a40 "The third batch"):
> https://80x24.org/spew/20190322163449.25362-1-e@80x24.org/raw
>
> So you might've hit an ephemeral error (bad connection,
> HTTP server restarting, etc).
>
> GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git \
> 	-c http.maxRequests=1 -c http.followRedirects=true clone \
> 	http://git.denx.de/u-boot-efi.git
>