# git clone over HTTP failing one time out of four

1 messages from 2008-11-03 to 2008-11-03. Participants: Bryan Larsen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16157

## Bryan Larsen, 2008-11-03 21:25

Subject: git clone over HTTP failing one time out of four
Message-ID: <490F6C3B.4020108@larsen.st>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/490F6C3B.4020108%40larsen.st

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Given the discussion about HTTP clones on October 12th, this isn't a 
huge surprise, but I thought I'd throw this out there.

I've been doing a large number of clones of 
http://repo.or.cz/r/kdebase.git.  Approximately 1 time in 4 this fails 
with an error like:

error: Unable to find fdb3... under http://repo.or.cz/r/kdebase.git
Cannot obtain needed tree fdb3...
while processing commit 3ce5...

I assume that repo.or.cz has the post hooks properly set up to do 
update-server-info.   Perhaps more is needed?

kdebase.git is the largest tree I could find, so the clone takes a long 
time to complete, and changes are being pushed regularly.

Bryan

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