On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:28:10PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > We've had a report that this command is hanging: > > git clone --depth=2 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib It might be related to this deadlock which impacts upload-pack on a server with pthreads serving a shallow clone: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170789 Unfortunately the fix I posted is not yet in any released version of git. It is in the current 'next'. > It appears to be something specific to the gnulib repository, > since I can do a shallow clone of e.g., this one just fine: > > git://git.savannah.gnu.org/parallel.git It's a race condition on filling up a rev-list buffer, so certain repos may be more prone to triggering the race than others. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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