From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:48:17 GMT
Subject: Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?
Message-ID: <7vek26wkwu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060214050616.GA28528@kroah.com>

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> 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.