From: Peter Baumann <peter.baumann@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:37:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Am I doing something wrong?
Message-ID: <802d21790512211037q4ffc5816u@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhd92b90w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

2005/12/21, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
> >>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> >
> > Junio> I said I tried cloning from scratch and fetching into an old one
> > Junio> over HTTP and succeeded, did I not?  So it does not seem to be
> > Junio> the case either.
> >
> > Cloning from scratch probably worked differently than starting
> > from wherever I was.
>
> Yup, that's why I tried both.
>
> > ... However, I'm very clear on the symptoms... trying to start
> > from wherever I had last updated, to update to the current release,
> > failed when sucking from HTTP, but worked when sucking from GIT.
>
> I do not doubt you got a failure.  I just couldn't reproduce it
> easily by fetching into a copy of a stale repository.  Earlier I
> was suspecting mirroring lags (my successful trial was done
> within the last hour) but I do not think that is the case
> because your failure was also way after the mirroring should
> have happened.
>
> Will dig a bit more when able.
>

Sorry , but I have seen this too. I deleted my git directory and
cloned it again and it worked, but the original pull didn't work.
(Same error as above.) I'll look if I can find a backup of my old git
directory and look if there is the same error for you to reproduce. If
I can find something, I'll get back to you.

Peter Baumann