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Is there really a need for packed-refs to exist for rsync://?

Subject: Is there really a need for packed-refs to exist for rsync://?

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Ralf Baechle· Apr 16, 2008, 09:42 UTC · lore

Trying to clone a repository using its rsync:// URL I'm getting this error message:

[...] sent 150 bytes received 363603747 bytes 80800866.00 bytes/sec total size is 363559095 speedup is 1.00 rsync: link_stat "/scm/upstream-linus.git/packed-refs" (in pub) failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9] fatal: Could not run rsync to get refs $

The same repository can be cloned with no problem using its git:// and http:// URLs so I guess the rsync:// method is broken here. This is using git 1.5.4.1.

Cheers,
  Ralf

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