From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:43:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706260935440.8675@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5r8q5$pbr$1@sea.gmane.org>



On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
>
> For two days I've been unable to pull from Linus's kernel
> git repository.  The reason seems to be that HEAD is a
> symlink to refs/heads/master, which appears to be missing.

It's not missing, it's packed. I tend to re-pack after I make a release, 
and this time I did it after -rc6.

I assume you're using http, and probably not a very recent version.

> I'm wondering if Linus's personal version of git is broken ;o)

http fetching has always been the ugly step-child of the other protocols. 
I personally dislike it a lot. But it _should_ work even with packed refs, 
at least if recent enough.

I just tested, it seems to work for me (I didn't wait for the clone to 
succeed, but it certainly got started).

		Linus