# Why fetching latest kernel sources is failing?

2 messages from 2005-07-13 to 2005-07-20. Participants: Paolo \'Blaisorblade\' Giarrusso, Petr Baudis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1238

## Paolo \'Blaisorblade\' Giarrusso, 2005-07-13 17:22

Subject: Why fetching latest kernel sources is failing?
Message-ID: <loom.20050713T182418-822@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20050713T182418-822%40post.gmane.org

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cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

gives me the following error:

progress: 2 objects, 921 bytes
error: File 2a7e338ec2fc6aac461a11fe8049799e65639166 (http://www.kernel.org/pub/
scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects/2a/
7e338ec2fc6aac461a11fe8049799e65639166) corrupt

Cannot obtain needed blob 2a7e338ec2fc6aac461a11fe8049799e65639166
while processing commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
error: cannot map sha1 file 2a7e338ec2fc6aac461a11fe8049799e65639166
cg-pull: objects pull failed
cg-init: pull failed

What's happening now? On the other local tree (I had already checked out a tree) 
I get other kind of problems, so I can't use it either.

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## Petr Baudis, 2005-07-20 00:00

Subject: Re: Why fetching latest kernel sources is failing?
Message-ID: <20050720000033.GG2255@pasky.ji.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050720000033.GG2255%40pasky.ji.cz
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050713T182418-822@post.gmane.org>

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Dear diary, on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:22:22PM CEST, I got a letter
where "Paolo \\'Blaisorblade\\' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> told me that...
> cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Please use rsync, http is broken for the time being and not trivially
fixable (patches pending, though).

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone.  -- Alan Cox

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