Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758731AbXFDVTm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:19:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752763AbXFDVTf (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:19:35 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36533 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752748AbXFDVTf (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:19:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:13:59 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Tim Bird Cc: linux kernel Subject: Re: Problem with http URL for stable git tree? Message-ID: <20070604211359.GA2046@kroah.com> References: <46646389.7090101@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46646389.7090101@am.sony.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 23 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:10:01PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Greg, > > I'm having problems cloning the stable git tree for 2.6.21. > Here's what I get: > > $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git stable-2.6.21.y > Cannot get remote repository information. > Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? Ick, don't clone by "http://", please use the git protocol instead: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git that should work better. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/