Re: [MinGW PATCH] git clone was failing with 'invalid object name HEAD' if ran from cmd.exe directly

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 6, 2007, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708062346120.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <a1bbc6950708061532t45fb0cf4w716971260b0640ae@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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> On 8/6/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > > Does it mean that fork of a fork does not work on repo.or.cz?
> >
> > Yes, at the moment it does not work.  Therefore I set up 
> > git/mingw4msysgit.git, for the time being.
> 
> That's too bad. I was thinking about adopting distributed dev model for 
> MinGW port of Git: we all would fork off mingw.git on repo.or.cz and 
> then we would pull from each other instead of exchanging patches thru 
> e-mail. Personally I don't like email patch exchange process.

We can still do that. Just set up a fork of _git.git_, and initialise it with mingw4msysgit.git.

> Can this problem on repo.or.cs be fixed? Did Petr reply?

I think it can. But Pasky seems to be extraordinarily busy these days. So no, I got no reply besides a message on IRC that he'll try to do something about the situation tonight.

Ciao, Dscho