Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2008, 18:15 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> writes:
>
>> $ git clone http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>> Getting alternates list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>> Getting pack list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>> Getting index for pack 81cec7c6b26c755e466a79de8dbe1c7b827a48d6
>> error: non-monotonic index
>> /usr/bin/git-clone: line 33:  2025 Segmentation fault git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"
>>
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.4.4.4
>>
>> Fresh 32bit Debian testing.
>
> 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.