From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: Problem in update from the linux-2.6 repository Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:28:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1131402521.5824.154.camel@blade> References: <1131380293.5824.139.camel@blade> <1131401931.5824.149.camel@blade> <20051107222353.GV1431@pasky.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 07 23:30:28 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZFTv-00013T-Lg for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:28:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965562AbVKGW2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:28:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965563AbVKGW2j (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:28:39 -0500 Received: from coyote.holtmann.net ([217.160.111.169]:61842 "EHLO mail.holtmann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965564AbVKGW2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:28:38 -0500 Received: from blade (p5487DB86.dip.t-dialin.net [84.135.219.134]) by mail.holtmann.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id jA7MSkGB027185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:28:46 +0100 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20051107222353.GV1431@pasky.or.cz> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.85.1/1165/Sun Nov 6 06:12:58 2005 on coyote.holtmann.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Petr, > > > I run into a weird problem when trying to update my clone of the > > > linux-2.6 repository from Linus: > > > > > > --- > > > # cg-update -f > > > 17:09:00 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/HEAD [41/41] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1] > > > Getting alternates list > > > Getting pack list > > > error: Unable to find 2ed5e6d09e266bd2288d49aaaf240ed8c468c13c under http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ > > > > > > Cannot obtain needed object 2ed5e6d09e266bd2288d49aaaf240ed8c468c13c > > > while processing commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000. > > > cg-fetch: objects fetch failed > > > --- > > > > forget about this thing. The reason for this problem was the kernel.org > > mirroring and the repository wasn't in a sane state. However it would be > > great if we can detect this somehow. > > well, we did detect this and error out. ;-) What else would you like > GIT/Cogito to do? Anything particular that could make this less > confusing? I actually have no real idea, but the "object fetch failed" doesn't tell me anything besides that an object seems to be missing. Maybe this is a problem we have to live with when using the kernel.org mirroring. Regards Marcel