Re: maybe breakage with latest git-pull and http protocol

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 15, 2005, 16:37 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwtkeohws.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <863bn3lypn.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

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>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
>
> Daniel> Can you give a general description of what happens? I've
> Daniel> noticed that I sometimes get spurious error messages that
> Daniel> don't actually affect the download, which I haven't tracked
> Daniel> down yet.
>
> OK, it happened this morning.  While syncing to update from
> yesterday's version, I got:
>
>     localhost:~/MIRROR/git-GIT % git-pull
>     Fetching refs/heads/master from http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git using http
>     Getting alternates list
>     got 4546738b58a0134eef154231b07d60fc174d56e3
>     walk 4546738b58a0134eef154231b07d60fc174d56e3
>     got d402d5566fdf226697a386dfb9858e5d954e9b91
>     got 873d8e5652c06c3891278f33546c437efc209c2d
>     walk d402d5566fdf226697a386dfb9858e5d954e9b91
>     error: 
>     Getting pack list
>     got 0207ab18a3876249a928e7539d8f594a4f6921f1
>     got 9f7534accdf34b980a2de670cb1009dd84ee56c4
>     error: Unable to find 5ad4a2766d34569f3a1278544ab64978fab14cc8 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
>
>     Cannot obtain needed blob 5ad4a2766d34569f3a1278544ab64978fab14cc8
>     while processing commit d402d5566fdf226697a386dfb9858e5d954e9b91.
>
> Definitely broken.  But I can "rsync" just fine.
>
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