git cloning fails

git cloning fails

[Abraham Arce]

Hello,

While cloning git repository

git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

I've received the following message:

got 33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77
error: Couldn't get
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
tags/gitgui-0.6.0
The requested URL returned error: 404
error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull

Any idea?

Best Regards
Abraham

Re: git cloning fails

[Jeff King]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:00:20AM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote:

> While cloning git repository
> 
> git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> 
> I've received the following message:
> 
> got 33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77
> error: Couldn't get
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
> tags/gitgui-0.6.0
> The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull

This works just fine for me. Which git version are you using? Does the
problem still exist if you try again? If that URL did in fact return a
404, it sounds more like a kernel.org problem.

-Peff

Re: git cloning fails

[Junio C Hamano]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:00:20AM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote:
>
>> While cloning git repository
>> 
>> git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>> 
>> I've received the following message:
>> 
>> got 33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77
>> error: Couldn't get
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
>> tags/gitgui-0.6.0
>> The requested URL returned error: 404
>> error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull
>
> This works just fine for me. Which git version are you using? Does the
> problem still exist if you try again? If that URL did in fact return a
> 404, it sounds more like a kernel.org problem.

Mirroring lag among www servers, methinks.

Re: git cloning fails

[Abraham Arce]

On 4/8/08, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:00:20AM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote:
>
> > While cloning git repository
> >
> > git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> >
> > I've received the following message:
> >
> > got 33682a5e98adfd8ba4ce0e21363c443bd273eb77
> > error: Couldn't get
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
> > tags/gitgui-0.6.0
> > The requested URL returned error: 404
> > error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull
>
> This works just fine for me. Which git version are you using? Does the
> problem still exist if you try again? If that URL did in fact return a
> 404, it sounds more like a kernel.org problem.

Thanks!
I've tried 3 times, the git version I am using is 1.5.0.6.

>
> -Peff
>

Re: git cloning fails

[Jeff King]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:40:14PM -0500, Abraham Arce wrote:

> > > error: Couldn't get
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/tags/gitgui-0.6.0 for
> > > tags/gitgui-0.6.0
> > > The requested URL returned error: 404
> > > error: Could not interpret tags/gitgui-0.6.0 as something to pull
> [...]
> I've tried 3 times, the git version I am using is 1.5.0.6.

Ah, I was able to reproduce with that version. It looks like 1.5.0.6
doesn't properly fetch packed refs over http. IIRC, it _should_ work
with that version (RelNotes-1.5.0 mentions packed refs), but there may
be a bug.

That version is over a year old now, and any bug has long since been
fixed; can you upgrade to a more modern git?

-Peff