Problem cloning packed-and-pruned http repository

[takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be (Panagiotis Issaris)]

Hi

I've been having trouble setting up a public repository using GIT. After
I have pushed my repository to a directory within ~/public_html, I can
clone it. But the repository is _big_ (261M).

So, I use "git-repack" on it and a "git-prune-packed". This makes it
nicely fit in 14MiB. If I try to clone this pruned/packed repository
again both cg-clone hangs on it (as does git-clone).

Here's two outputs demonstrating this. One repository was a "cp -lr"
clone [1] of the other, and one was packed/pruned, the other wasn't:
takis@poseidon:/tmp$ cg-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264.git
defaulting to local storage area
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
progress: 38 objects, 159434 bytes
cg-clone: interrupted
takis@poseidon:/tmp$ cg-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git
defaulting to local storage area
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
Getting alternates list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
Getting pack list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
progress: 0 objects, 0 bytes
cg-clone: interrupted

So, I tried tracing it, to see what was going on:
takis@poseidon:/tmp/a$ ps x|grep git
18386 pts/9    S+     0:00 /bin/sh /home/takis/bin/git-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git
18400 pts/9    S+     0:00 git-http-fetch -v -a -w heads/master heads/master http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
18416 pts/10   S+     0:00 grep git

takis@poseidon:/tmp/a$ strace -f -p 18400
Process 18400 attached - interrupt to quit
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 48000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 454932}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 454989}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 506226}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 506277}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 558245}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 558296}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 610227}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 610277}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
...

And this keeps going on... so I can't see any data getting in :-(

Any hints what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any replies! :)

With friendly regards,
Takis

[1] I am aware of "git-clone -l -s" but wanted to make fully
independent copy and wasn't sure about any links between them if only
using "-l".
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