From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning. Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:59:09 +0400 Message-ID: <20080719195909.GA5093@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20080719174742.GA4253@2ka.mipt.ru> <7vfxq521ab.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8wvx211n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 19 22:00:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKIbQ-0004Cp-MF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:00:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752787AbYGST70 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:59:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752307AbYGST70 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:59:26 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.80.65]:55540 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752143AbYGST7Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:59:25 -0400 Received: from 2ka.mipt.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 2ka.mipt.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m6JJxAdp002731; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:59:10 +0400 Received: (from johnpol@localhost) by 2ka.mipt.ru (8.14.1/8.12.1/Submit) id m6JJx9FQ002730; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:59:09 +0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8wvx211n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Junio. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:15:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano (gitster@pobox.com) wrote: > > 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