fatal: git-unpack-objects died with error code 128

Can anyone suggest what I should be doing to make this work?

  $ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git :history
  warning: no common commits
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 566638 objects.
  Deltifying 566638 objects.
   100% (566638/566638) done
  Unpacking 566638 objects
  fatal: unexpected EOF done
  fatal: early EOF
  fatal: git-unpack-objects died with error code 128
  Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git

using:

  git version 1.4.1

Is there some other way to achieve this?