Re: Problems cloning

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

Dear diary, on Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:15:47PM CEST, I got a letter
where Nico -telmich- Schottelius [off-list ref] told me that...

quoted

Cloning gitweb from kernel.org fails:

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[16:10] hydrogenium:build% cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git 
defaulting to local storage area
16:10:35 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git/HEAD [41/41] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
progress: 84 objects, 295012 bytes
Getting pack list
Getting alternates list
error: Unable to find d263a6bd453df849c9f9211f1966c830c3cf913a under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/gitweb.git/

Cannot obtain needed commit d263a6bd453df849c9f9211f1966c830c3cf913a
while processing commit f5dfb3f6a6655d4d60fdd0aaeef7b5b14226147f.
cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
cg-clone: fetch failed
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Info:

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[16:01] hydrogenium:cinit% cg --version
cogito-0.15.1 (cfeac5893d97b830ac31b9d41951c30f80967410)

[16:13] hydrogenium:cinit% git --version
git version 0.99.7d
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It seems that the gitweb repository is broken wrt. fetching over HTTP,
since it does not have the "dumb server info" containing the list of
packs. Someone needs to run git-update-server-info over there.

Sure, I use plain rsync.
Never tried any of the tools that maintain this info. :)

Kay