Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Committing initial tree 34bd3dcd4bfd79bad35ce3fb08b2e21108195db8 >> Server has gone away while fetching BUGS-TODO 1.1, retrying... >... > Martin, that problem seems to go away when I initialize $res to 0 in > _fetchfile. > > I don't know perl, and maybe local variables are pre-initialized to empty. When a new file that is empty is created, sub _line would call sub _fetchfile with $cnt == 0, and it can return $res which is initialized to 'undef'. That explains why sub file says $self->_line() returned an undef and I think what you did is the right fix. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html