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From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:	"D.J.Dimmich" <djd20@kent.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: git, rsync, and firewalls...
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:49:30PM +0100, D.J.Dimmich wrote:

> Cannot obtain needed blob 658dc2bb726238c6eb05edf3eb2d35050c8beb1d
> while processing commit 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
> error: cannot map sha1 file 658dc2bb726238c6eb05edf3eb2d35050c8beb1d
> cg-pull: objects pull failed
> cg-init: pull failed
> 
> cg (cogito) are wrapper scripts around git...  Something's no good...  the
> rsync method bombs out at 97% - just hangs....

I've seen rsync hanging like this frequently when certain types of
firewall configurations were involved.  The #1 troublemaker have been
certain older Cisco PIX versions but there are others.

Anyway, cloning via http works fine, I've just verified that.

  Ralf