From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:59:00 GMT
Subject: Re: kde.git is now online
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704060857240.28181@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <43336D7E-AFE7-4BAF-93C7-B302933363B5@adacore.com>

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Geert Bosch wrote:

> On my Mac OS X system, cloning this fails with:
> 
> potomac:~/kde%git clone http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/kdegit/kde.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/bosch/kde/kde/.git/
> Getting alternates list for http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/kdegit/kde.git/
> Getting pack list for http://userweb.kernel.org/~hpa/kdegit/kde.git/
> Getting index for pack c3df59bc67f69b3861ebef8de308156f1c5fe017
> Getting pack c3df59bc67f69b3861ebef8de308156f1c5fe017
> which contains ca908d2d51f154aab9f5727c1e57fb23a2942485
> fatal: packfile
> /Users/bosch/kde/kde/.git/objects/pack/pack-c3df59bc67f69b3861ebef8de308156f1c5fe017.pack
> cannot be mapped.
> 
> Even worse, al files seem to have been deleted, so I have to
> download this again. I guess, I shouldn't have used git clone...

Given that this repo is pushing it to the limits, you better download 
the .tar.bz2 archive and play with it locally first.


Nicolas