# Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull

5 messages from 2005-09-04 to 2005-09-04. Participants: Kalle Valo, Martin Langhoff, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1721

## Kalle Valo, 2005-09-04 09:20

Subject: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
Message-ID: <87psrp5gvp.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87psrp5gvp.fsf%40litku.valo.iki.fi

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I was trying to clone the git repository this morning and it fails
every time:

$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git
defaulting to local storage area
got 953e5842f8fcd40c3e7013a9793746719016db1b
got 394b750a6e25c2f085d950dbe04368e212f07ad8
got 86b13da46cd710a45a89968880c691452d5b70b4
got 245f54e050b65126ec28e82508a1b4e187ca8728
[...]
got 1bd90415deccc4562e0fb4d0f8e58140aa687ac1
got cc4dc346498b450c18b09f63800ac28c07064c52
got 2a54cff3fe9de4828730e3ad1c32217abb2c2731
got 15891f81e0fa99333ad81e9271df5b2a72ba368e
error: Couldn't get http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/heads/dbrt-test for heads/dbrt-test

error: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
litku:~/projects/git$ 

I tried this a couple of times this morning (an hour apart) to find
out whether it was just some mirroring glitch, but the error
prevailed. What's wrong?

I'm using git compiled earlier this week on Debian unstable.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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## Martin Langhoff, 2005-09-04 10:05

Subject: Re: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
Message-ID: <46a038f9050904030517f6ddda@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f9050904030517f6ddda%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <87psrp5gvp.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>

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On 9/4/05, Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi> wrote:
> I was trying to clone the git repository this morning and it fails
> every time:
> got 15891f81e0fa99333ad81e9271df5b2a72ba368e
> error: Couldn't get http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/heads/dbrt-test for heads/dbrt-test

Tried to repro, but takes ageson my puny cablemodem. Cloning via rsync
seems to work well though.

cheers,


martin

```

## Kalle Valo, 2005-09-04 10:13

Subject: Re: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
Message-ID: <87irxh5eea.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87irxh5eea.fsf%40litku.valo.iki.fi
In-Reply-To: <46a038f9050904030517f6ddda@mail.gmail.com>

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

>> error: Couldn't get http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/heads/dbrt-test for heads/dbrt-test
>
> Tried to repro, but takes ageson my puny cablemodem. Cloning via rsync
> seems to work well though.

Rsync works for me also. But HTTP is still broken.

-- 
Kalle Valo

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2005-09-04 17:07

Subject: Re: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
Message-ID: <7v7jdwiwwo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v7jdwiwwo.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <87irxh5eea.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>

```
Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi> writes:

> Rsync works for me also. But HTTP is still broken.

Sorry, a broken repo.  Fix made on master should percolate
through soonish.

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## Kalle Valo, 2005-09-04 17:34

Subject: Re: Could not interpret heads/dbrt-test as something to pull
Message-ID: <87y86c3ffu.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87y86c3ffu.fsf%40litku.valo.iki.fi
In-Reply-To: <7v7jdwiwwo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

>> Rsync works for me also. But HTTP is still broken.
>
> Sorry, a broken repo.  Fix made on master should percolate
> through soonish.

HTTP clone works now, thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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