From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: E2fsprogs git tree Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20070807172814.GA21522@thunk.org> References: <46B89C92.5060302@bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Valerie Clement Return-path: Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:38781 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757446AbXHGR2Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46B89C92.5060302@bull.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:23:46PM +0200, Valerie Clement wrote: > Hi Ted, > > I tried to clone the source tree but it failed. > > The command "git-clone > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git" failed with : > "error: Could not interpret tags/APPLE_UUID_SNAP_1 as something to pull" > > The command "git-clone http://repo.or.cz/r/e2fsprogs.git" failed with: > "error: Can't lock ref" What version of git are you using? Make sure you are using something which is at least git 1.5.x. BTW, the better URL's to use are: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git or git clone git://repo.or.cz/e2fsprogs.git The http walkers are *much* more inefficient. I did try out git-clone using the http URL's, and it works, but it's slow. The other possibility is that you have some kind of nasty http transparent proxy which is corrupting the http protocol stream. This is why the git transport is seriously the much, much, MUCH better alternative. - Ted