Re: E2fsprogs git tree

["Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:14 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:23:46PM +0200, Valerie Clement wrote:
> > Hi Ted,
> > 
> > I tried to clone the source tree but it failed.
> > 
> > The command "git-clone 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git" failed with : 
> > "error: Could not interpret tags/APPLE_UUID_SNAP_1 as something to
> > pull"
> > 
> > The command "git-clone http://repo.or.cz/r/e2fsprogs.git" failed
> > with: "error: Can't lock ref"
> 
> What version of git are you using?  Make sure you are using something
> which is at least git 1.5.x.

I get the same error as Valerie when using version 1.4.4.2.  The same
version worked a couple of weeks ago when using the http URL.

> 
> BTW, the better URL's to use are:
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
> 
> or
> 
> git clone git://repo.or.cz/e2fsprogs.git

This seems to works fine using my older version of git.
 
> The http walkers are *much* more inefficient.  I did try out git-clone
> using the http URL's, and it works, but it's slow.  The other
> possibility is that you have some kind of nasty http transparent proxy
> which is corrupting the http protocol stream.  This is why the git
> transport is seriously the much, much, MUCH better alternative.   
> 
> 
> 					- Ted

-JRS