Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> I was using the pu branch i tried to update the git repository and i got 
> this error.
> 
> alk 9e950efa20dc8037c27509666cba6999da9368e8
> walk 3b6a792f6ace33584897d1af08630c9acc0ce221
> * refs/heads/origin: fast forward to branch 'master' of 
> http://repo.or.cz/r/linux-2.6
>  old..new: 3d42488..088406b
> Auto-following refs/tags/v2.6.19-rc5
> shallow clone with http not supported
> 
> 
> This repository was not cloned with -depth. I only updated the git tools 
> using the pu branch
> 

The attached patch gets it working. I am not sure whether the fix is the right one. I 
am a little bit confused regarding the $depth being incremented. 

-aneesh