Re: git clone stable-2.6.25.y fails over HTTP

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:11:24AM -0700, Andrew Klossner wrote:

Greg wrote:

quoted

I don't think I remembered to run 'git-update-server-info' on the
repository.  I just did it, let me know if that works better or not.

I get the same error.

  -=- Andrew

% git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2 .6.25.y.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /work/andrew/http-git/linux-2.6.25.y/.git/
Getting alternates list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
Also look at http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
Getting index for pack 6506d57e29d10a0ed9cca269f97296606aeb0b5b
Getting index for pack 067caec25377d65e503d626a6c4f3f7e392406a3
Getting index for pack 5434817c4def8a894fe4d61f55e8e4117485cbe7
Getting pack 067caec25377d65e503d626a6c4f3f7e392406a3
 which contains a82a9bfebc74862798a3f6949fe6f6a959c1fd4e
walk a82a9bfebc74862798a3f6949fe6f6a959c1fd4e
walk 15c2419876173c417a119b5665ecc62520e50a6c
Getting pack list for http://www.kernel.org/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
error: Unable to find fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4 under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
Cannot obtain needed blob fdcce40226d7d4273a08cc4ef84bb25755a710a4
while processing commit 15c2419876173c417a119b5665ecc62520e50a6c.

Hm, I really do not know, and I can duplicate this myself as well.

<adding the git mailing list>

Does anyone know what's going on here?  The stable git trees are created
by doing:
	git clone -s --bare
from Linus's main tree to the stable tree repo location.

It looks like git over http isn't following the link somehow to the main
repo?

Or is what is necessary to do is to clone Linus's tree and then pull
from the stable tree in this kind of situation (where the user can only
use git over http?)

thanks,

greg k-h