From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:10:04 GMT
Subject: Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning.
Message-ID: <7vfxq521ab.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080719174742.GA4253@2ka.mipt.ru>

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

The repository you are cloning uses pack idx version #2; 1.4.4.4 predates it
by a wide margin.