[syslinux] git problem

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:47:14AM +0100, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
> Cristi wrote:
> > On 4/18/07, Andrew Goodbody <agoodbody at itronix.co.uk> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >
> >> > You cannot fetch directly from the gitweb (HTML) interface, try :
> >> >
> >> > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git
> >> >
> >> > This works fine on my cygwin installation using git 1.5.0.3
> >>
> >> Well somebody should fix http://syslinux.zytor.com/devel.php in that
> >> case as that is where I got the directions from.
> >>
> >> The command line you gave also fails for me with:
> >> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This happens sometimes with kernel.org. Just retry the operation after
some time. I don't know if git pull would work on a git clone error, but
it's worth trying instead of a full clone.


> >>
> >> It looks like it must be a network/firewall issue here at work. Does
> >> anyone know the default ports used by git so I can check if they are
> >> blocked or not?
> > 
> > Well, I think the page is right, I just tried a 'git clone
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git' and it
> > worked.
> > Git port is 9481/tcp; maybe you have a proxy or the git/cogito
> > version is not recent enough ?
> > 
>   On Cygwin I am using the latest binary install packages, git is
> 1.5.0.3 so they should be OK. No proxy that I am aware of.
> 
> I found a typo in my git command line and now it gets further but still
> does not complete. This does not look like a network issue to me but
> then I don't know what it could be either.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /cygdrive/h/src/syslinux/syslinux/.git/
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 8727 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 8727 objects.
> remote:  100% (8727/8727) done
> Indexing 8727 objects.
> remote: Total 8727 (delta 5801), reused 8143 (delta 5217)
>   100% (8727/8727) done
> Resolving 5801 deltas.
>   100% (5801/5801) done
> : not a valid SHA1f63cfeb84e9bb1243df03808c2fff
> fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

Just now:
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/syslinux/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 8727 objects.
remote: Deltifying 8727 objects.
remote:  100% (8727/8727) done
Indexing 8727 objects.
remote: Total 8727 (delta 5801), reused 8143 (delta 5217)
 100% (8727/8727) done
Resolving 5801 deltas.
 100% (5801/5801) done
Checking files out...
 100% (569/569) done
$

It could be that you're getting corrupted data via your network or from
your memory.

-- 
lfr
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