git trouble

git trouble

[Geoff Levand]

I'm having this problem lately...  Any help?

$ cg-clone http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git linux-mips.git
defaulting to local storage area
08:45:45 URL:http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git/HEAD [23/23] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
error: Could not interpret ref: refs/heads/master as something to pull
cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
cg-clone: fetch failed

Re: git trouble

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:50:32AM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:

> I'm having this problem lately...  Any help?
> 
> $ cg-clone http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git linux-mips.git
> defaulting to local storage area
> 08:45:45 URL:http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git/HEAD [23/23] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
> error: Could not interpret ref: refs/heads/master as something to pull
> cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
> cg-clone: fetch failed

HEAD used to be a symlink; more recent versions of git which try to
support operating systems without symlinks put something like
"ref: refs/heads/master" into that file.  I suspect your cogito is
simply too old to grok that.

  Ralf