From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:02:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem cloning the Linux history tree
Message-ID: <7vmzkl3yl0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1131008187.6634.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> writes:

> # 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