Junio,
Thank you for your good explanation.
Also thanks to Miklos Vajna who also replied to suggest using git:// transport.
(Over 3 years ago I used git glone to get a copy of torvalds/linux-2.6.git
using rsync transport and I copied the recipe I used then. It has been
working for "git pull" updates, and for one from-scratch re-clone
I did sometime last year. I had no reason to suspect it was broken.)
This morning I re-started the clone using git:// transport and it worked OK.
-Tim Shepard
shep@alum.mit.edu