Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?

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Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:19

Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:
I was trying to find where something changed in the historical Linux
kernel git tree:
	rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/

when I noticed that the latest version of git doesn't seem to like this
archive.  I can't clone it, but 'git log' and 'git whatchanged' seems to
work fine.
I think 1.2.0 may be a coincidence.  history.git/ mistakenly has
an extra .git subdirectory underneath it.  Removing it should
make things to work again I suspect.

Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?

From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:19

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
I was trying to find where something changed in the historical Linux
kernel git tree:
	rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/

when I noticed that the latest version of git doesn't seem to like this
archive.  I can't clone it, but 'git log' and 'git whatchanged' seems to
work fine.
I think 1.2.0 may be a coincidence.  history.git/ mistakenly has
an extra .git subdirectory underneath it.  Removing it should
make things to work again I suspect.
Ah, doh, that was simple.  Thanks for the quick response.

greg k-h

Re: older git archive access broken in 1.2.0?

From: Thomas Gleixner <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:19

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:15 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
quoted
I think 1.2.0 may be a coincidence.  history.git/ mistakenly has
an extra .git subdirectory underneath it.  Removing it should
make things to work again I suspect.
Ah, doh, that was simple.  Thanks for the quick response.
Fixed. No idea how it got there. 

	tglx
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