I noticed while scanning #git log that it appears that pack-refs was run in your public repo and some people cannot clone over dumb protocols with older git. commit 2986c02217f98809d8990e7679edf0f5d99f904d Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 22 22:24:09 2006 -0800 git-fetch: fix dumb protocol transport to fetch from pack-pruned ref was the first revision that aligned dumb protocol clients with pack-ref; unfortunately anything older will not find the ref that was packed. We do have a backward compatibility warning on this in v1.5.0 release notes draft, but I think we would make it more obvious. Sigh... - 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