# Re: Can't clone Linus tree

2 messages from 2006-07-24 to 2006-07-24. Participants: Rene Scharfe.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4971

## Rene Scharfe, 2006-07-24 09:55

Subject: Re: Can't clone Linus tree
Message-ID: <44C4992E.3070706@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/44C4992E.3070706%40lsrfire.ath.cx
In-Reply-To: <20060724080752.GA8716@irc.pl>

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Tomasz Torcz schrieb:
>  Hi,
> 
>  yesterdat I wanted to bisect my kernel problem, but failed at first step:
> cloning Linus' tree. Today I tried it on other system and also failed.
> 
>  This is git-1.4.0 on Slackware, i586:
> 
> %  git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-git
> fatal: packfile '/home/zdzichu/linux-git/.git/objects/pack/tmp-1jI4AH' SHA1 mismatch
> error: git-fetch-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack
> error: git-index-pack died with error code 128
> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git' failed.
> 
>  And this is 1.4.0-1.fc5 on FC5, x86_64:
> % git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-git
> fatal: packfile '/home/tomek/linux-git/.git/objects/pack/tmp-BxIcIC' SHA1 mismatch
> error: git-fetch-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack
> error: git-index-pack died with error code 128
> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git' failed.
> 
>  Errors occur constantly since yesterday. They of course appear after
> downloading several megabytes of data, which is unpleasant on my 128kbps
> connection.

Same here with both the master and next branch of git.  rsync as
suggested by Johannes Weiner works.  You can change the protocol
back to git in .git/remotes/origin after cloning; pulling small
changes seems to work fine.

strace tells me that safe_read at pkt-line.c:111 gets only 305 of
the expected 996 bytes and then dies.  I have no idea how that
might happen. :-/

Pulling the git repository works using the git protocol, btw.

René

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## Rene Scharfe, 2006-07-24 10:36

Subject: Re: Can't clone Linus tree
Message-ID: <44C4A293.8090207@lsrfire.ath.cx>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/44C4A293.8090207%40lsrfire.ath.cx
In-Reply-To: <44C4992E.3070706@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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> Tomasz Torcz schrieb:
>> %  git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-git
>> fatal: packfile '/home/zdzichu/linux-git/.git/objects/pack/tmp-1jI4AH' SHA1 mismatch
>> error: git-fetch-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack
>> error: git-index-pack died with error code 128
>> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git' failed.

Ah, I just saw this is a known problem and there's a patch by
Matthias Lederhofer, which Junio just accepted, I think (the
mail with subject "[PATCH] upload-pack: fix timeout in
create_pack_file)" on the git mailing list.

The problem is apparently that the server expects you (wrongly)
to finish your download session within ten minutes.  Until the
server is fixed you can use rsync:// for the initial clone and
git:// for smaller updates.

René

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