Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Evgeniy Polyakov [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

$ git clone http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Getting alternates list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
Getting pack list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
Getting index for pack 81cec7c6b26c755e466a79de8dbe1c7b827a48d6
error: non-monotonic index
/usr/bin/git-clone: line 33:  2025 Segmentation fault git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"

$ git --version
git version 1.4.4.4

Fresh 32bit Debian testing.

The repository you are cloning uses pack idx version #2; 1.4.4.4 predates it
by a wide margin.

By the way, Debian folks are very aware of the issue and already has a
backported material to cut a 1.4.4.5, but I do not know what the release
schedule for their update is.

Is it an option for you to update to a more modern version from say
backports.org?  Everybody using git for anything serious should be using
1.5.3 or newer these days.

Hi Junio.

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:15:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano (gitster@pobox.com) wrote:

quoted

The repository you are cloning uses pack idx version #2; 1.4.4.4 predates it
by a wide margin.

By the way, Debian folks are very aware of the issue and already has a
backported material to cut a 1.4.4.5, but I do not know what the release
schedule for their update is.

Is it an option for you to update to a more modern version from say
backports.org?  Everybody using git for anything serious should be using
1.5.3 or newer these days.

It is very development test machine, there is no need to use git at all,
it is just a convenient way to get a needed version via 'git clone; git reset'.

I posted it so it would be stored in archive, that old enough git
version does not work with recent trees, so one should upgrade if this
error occures.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov