From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Shepard Subject: 1.5.6.5 fails to clone git.kernel.org/[...]/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:24:19 -0500 Message-ID: To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 09 07:54:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LLBGE-0002eV-L9 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:54:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753375AbZAIGxH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 01:53:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753255AbZAIGxG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 01:53:06 -0500 Received: from dsl092-066-146.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.66.146]:41281 "EHLO alva.home" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752900AbZAIGxF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 01:53:05 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1722 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:53:04 EST Received: from shep (helo=alva.home) by alva.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LLAn5-0001JM-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:24:19 -0500 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have git 1.5.6.5 installed from the Debian/lenny package. Poking around in http://git.kernel.org/ looking for a git repository that might have the latest -rt development happening, I found http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git which looked promising. But when I tried cloning it using: git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git linux-2.6-rt it pulled several hundred megabytes through my (rather slow) DSL line and then printed out error: Trying to write ref refs/tags/v2.6.11 with nonexistant object 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c fatal: Cannot update the ref 'refs/tags/v2.6.11'. and then removed everything it had just pulled. Looking at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-rt.git;a=tags I see that apparently v2.6.11 and v.2.6.11-tree both point at a tree object and not a commit. Is this a bug in git? (Even if there is something wrong with the git repository I was trying to clone, the fact that it removed all the work that took a long time to pull is annoying.) Is this problem already fixed in some newer version of git? -Tim Shepard shep@alum.mit.edu