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Re: Problem cloning the Linux history tree

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Nov 4, 2005, 03:02 UTC
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Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> writes:
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> # cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> defaulting to local storage area
> 09:53:02 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/HEAD [41/41] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
> Getting alternates list
> Getting pack list
> error: The requested URL returned error: 404

That repository is packed but lacks objects/info/packs file. Perhaps you need to ask tglx to run git-update-server-info in the repository.

Cloning over git native transport should work, though:
    $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/lin.../history.git history
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