[U-Boot] git pull fails ?!

[Hannes Petermaier <hannes@petermaier.org>]

Dear Wolfgang,

I am using the git protocol but only a clone from scratch worked for me.

many thanks and best regards,
hannes


On 2014-07-15 14:28, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Hannes Petermaier,
>
> In message <53C51013.1020005@petermaier.org> you wrote:
>> at this moment i tried to fetch newest u-boot using 'git pull'
>>
>> GIT answered to me:
>>
>> error: Unable to find 524123a70761110c5cf3ccc5f52f6d4da071b959 under
>> http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
>> Cannot obtain needed object 524123a70761110c5cf3ccc5f52f6d4da071b959
>> error: Fetch failed.
>>
>> does anybody know whats going wrong?
>
> It works for me, both pulling into an existing repo and cloning from
> scratch.  eventually you have local problems.  Try if "git gc --prune",
> eventually followed by "git pack-refs --prune" helps.
>
> It it doesn't, then clone from scratch.
>
> And of course you should use git protocol rather than HTTP.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>