# Can't clone guilt repo

3 messages from 2007-03-05 to 2007-03-05. Participants: Michael S. Tsirkin, Yasushi SHOJI, Josef Sipek.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7084

## Michael S. Tsirkin, 2007-03-05 07:11

Subject: Can't clone guilt repo
Message-ID: <20070305071136.GL19828@mellanox.co.il>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070305071136.GL19828%40mellanox.co.il

```
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/guilt/.git/
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character
fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git'
failed.

$git --version
git version 1.5.0.3.268.g3dda


-- 
MST

```

## Yasushi SHOJI, 2007-03-05 08:26

Subject: Re: Can't clone guilt repo
Message-ID: <87y7mc6qpo.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87y7mc6qpo.wl%40mail2.atmark-techno.com
In-Reply-To: <20070305071136.GL19828@mellanox.co.il>

```
At Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:11:36 +0200,
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/guilt/.git/
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character
> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git'
> failed.

just tried the above line and worked.

    git it clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git
    Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/guilt/.git/
    remote: Generating pack...
    remote: Done counting 822 objects.
    remote: Deltifying 822 objects.
    remote:  100% (822/822) done
    Indexing 822 objects.
    remote: Total 822 (delta 518), reused 822 (delta 518)
     100% (822/822) done
    Resolving 518 deltas.
     100% (518/518) done

> $git --version
> git version 1.5.0.3.268.g3dda

    git --version
    git version 1.5.0.3.268.g3dda

same version.
-- 
         yashi

```

## Josef Sipek, 2007-03-05 08:53

Subject: Re: Can't clone guilt repo
Message-ID: <20070305085350.GA6440@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070305085350.GA6440%40filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070305071136.GL19828@mellanox.co.il>

```
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mst/scm/guilt/.git/
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character
> fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/guilt.git'
> failed.

I noticed that sometimes a pull/clone from git.kernel.org fails in an odd
way, but if I wait few seconds and retry everything is fine.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

-- 
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
		- Albert Einstein

```