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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.1-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.1-1
- From: Ian Kelling <smallnow at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:31:25 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.1-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.1-1
- References: <announce.4A20AB6E.1040803@byu.net> <f88ae150905300245g70761889n1d1c856847d23ea7@mail.gmail.com> <4A212BFC.6030604@byu.net>
Eric Blake wrote:
>
> This occurs when cloning via the git: protocol. Can you instead clone
> with the http: protocol to work around it? I still haven't had time to
> try and figure out why this fails for some repositories, but not others.
>
I've also noticed this failing for a while now. Using http instead does work,
although it is quite slow and does not work for all repos.
Here's a sample fail:
$ git clone git://git.musicpd.org/master/mpd.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /a/dt/test/mpd/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 33108, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12495/12495), done.
fatal: read error on input: Bad address.00 KiB | 78 KiB/s
fatal: index-pack failed
- Ian Kelling
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