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Peter Baumann <siprbaum@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> Jeremy Sw <kertejeremy@hotmail.com> schrieb:
>>
>> By running  # git clone http://intellinuxwireless.org/repos/ipwraw.git
>> git return an error when trying to Get alternates list.
>> the error is :
>> "error: Unable to find 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 under http://intellinuxwireless.org/repos/ipwraw.git/
>> Cannot obtain needed object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
>> apparently caused by a weird architecture of the tree !
>> there is 4 or 5 diffrents projects, but they have commun files because firmwares are related !
>
> I suggested on IRC to try this (I reproduced the error)
>
> mkdir test && cd test && \
> git-init && \
> git fetch http://intellinuxwireless.org/repos/ipwraw.git master:master
>
> and it works. Ok, fist I thought the error is in another branch, but
>
> git-ls-remote http://intellinuxwireless.org/repos/ipwraw.git
> 7e85b2032a864fcfe489085b768eea4b3a3a9d0b        refs/heads/master
> 7e85b2032a864fcfe489085b768eea4b3a3a9d0b        refs/heads/origin
> 7e85b2032a864fcfe489085b768eea4b3a3a9d0b        refs/tags/ipwraw-0.0.1
> 7e85b2032a864fcfe489085b768eea4b3a3a9d0b        refs/tags/ipwraw-0.0.2
>
> there is no other branch, at least as I could see.

The repository is seriously broken.  If you try wget to see
refs/tags/* files, you will find out that they are not even
tags; they are symrefs and both point at the master branch.

I do not think the Porcelain-ish shipped with git creates symref
in refs/tags/, so it was done by somebody playing with symbolic-ref
by hand perhaps?

I'd suggest James to do delete these bogus refs/tags/* files and
tag the correct commit with "git tag".