Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes: > > Hmm. What version of git are you using? > Hi Jeff, I'm a little short of time at the moment, I'll come to this back later. So just the quick infos. I discovered the error in my preinstalled version of git (1.7.5.4). I reproduced the error with the version of git I have the source code of: (which I should have done before, sorry) ../git/git/git clone https://n.ethz.ch/... Cloning into 'masterthesis'... warning: templates not found /home/ruedi/share/git-core/templates Username for 'n.ethz.ch': Password for 'n.ethz.ch': error: The requested URL returned error: 401 (curl_result = 22, http_code = 401, sha1 = 4e69f4215f0d8c02ec1c29aadcd4ea39bb4e7c5e) error: Unable to find 4e69f4215f0d8c02ec1c29aadcd4ea39bb4e7c5e under https://n.ethz.ch/.../masterthesis.git Cannot obtain needed commit 4e69f4215f0d8c02ec1c29aadcd4ea39bb4e7c5e while processing commit 0fa41a9d4b3282891173ec54c04e0e3763867807. error: Fetch failed. I am working with the git repository from https://github.com/gitster/git.git. >From the first few lines of my commit from gitk: Parent: 017d1e134545db0d162908f3538077eaa1f34fb6 (Update 1.7.8 draft release notes in preparation for rc4) Branch: master Follows: v1.7.7.4, v1.7.8-rc3 Hope this helps Cheers Ruedi -- 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