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Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Feb 14, 2006, 05:48 UTC
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
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> I was trying to find where something changed in the historical Linux
> kernel git tree:
> 	rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/
>
> when I noticed that the latest version of git doesn't seem to like this
> archive.  I can't clone it, but 'git log' and 'git whatchanged' seems to
> work fine.

I think 1.2.0 may be a coincidence. history.git/ mistakenly has an extra .git subdirectory underneath it. Removing it should make things to work again I suspect.

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