On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:14 -0400
Theodore Tso [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:23:46PM +0200, Valerie Clement wrote:

quoted

Hi Ted,

I tried to clone the source tree but it failed.

The command "git-clone 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git" failed with : 
"error: Could not interpret tags/APPLE_UUID_SNAP_1 as something to
pull"

The command "git-clone http://repo.or.cz/r/e2fsprogs.git" failed
with: "error: Can't lock ref"

What version of git are you using?  Make sure you are using something
which is at least git 1.5.x.

I get the same error as Valerie when using version 1.4.4.2.  The same
version worked a couple of weeks ago when using the http URL.

BTW, the better URL's to use are:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git

or

git clone git://repo.or.cz/e2fsprogs.git

This seems to works fine using my older version of git.
 

The http walkers are *much* more inefficient.  I did try out git-clone
using the http URL's, and it works, but it's slow.  The other
possibility is that you have some kind of nasty http transparent proxy
which is corrupting the http protocol stream.  This is why the git
transport is seriously the much, much, MUCH better alternative.   


					- Ted

-JRS