git trouble

DISCUSSION Geoff Levand 2 participants 2 messages Mar 1, 2006 MIPS

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Geoff Levand

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2006-03-01 16:42 UTC #0 lore raw

I'm having this problem lately... Any help?

$ cg-clone http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git linux-mips.git
defaulting to local storage area
08:45:45 URL:http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git/HEAD [23/23] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
error: Could not interpret ref: refs/heads/master as something to pull
cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
cg-clone: fetch failed

Ralf Baechle

2006-03-01 16:57 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 8 lines · Geoff Levand

I'm having this problem lately... Any help?

$ cg-clone http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git linux-mips.git
defaulting to local storage area
08:45:45 URL:http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git/HEAD [23/23] -> "refs/heads/.origin-fetching" [1]
error: Could not interpret ref: refs/heads/master as something to pull
cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
cg-clone: fetch failed

HEAD used to be a symlink; more recent versions of git which try to support operating systems without symlinks put something like "ref: refs/heads/master" into that file. I suspect your cogito is simply too old to grok that.

Ralf