From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:03:00 GMT
Subject: Re: maybe breakage with latest git-pull and http protocol
Message-ID: <863bn3lypn.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510141543030.23242@iabervon.org>

>>>>> "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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