Bill Allombert on Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:10:15 +0200


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Re: git clone does not work


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:20:18PM -0400, Mathieu Carbou wrote:
> I know that Cygwin has some forking issues with git client but just
> restarting the whole interpreter works and it is not the same error.
> 
> What is weird is that:
> 
> * Cloning gp2c (git clone http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/gp2c.git)
> on Windows 7 Cygwin GIT 1.7.9 works (but takes long time).
> 
> * Cloning pari (git clone http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git)
> on Ubuntu GIT 1.7.9.5 works (but takes long time).

Yes, http is the less efficient git transport, so it takes time.

> * Cloning pari (git clone http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git)
> on Windows 7 Cygwin GIT 1.7.9 does not work.
> 
> error: Unable to find e0584e1dd5a6c59e6bbf896a20ffabef94ed8398 under
> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git
> Cannot obtain needed object e0584e1dd5a6c59e6bbf896a20ffabef94ed8398
> while processing commit 0ce3694087edb9076f1c6319bfd0b8c6f2b304c6.
> 
> It always stops at the same commit...

I did a git fsck on the server. Maybe this will fix this issue.

Cheers,
Bill.