Hi Jeff, On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:43:59AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote: > > I was just trying to clone a repository using http but missed to run > > git-update-server-info on the server side. git-clone aborted with the > > following error messages: > > > > % git clone http://some/repo.git > > Initialized empty Git repository in /path/repo/.git/ > > cat: /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin/master: No such file or directory > > cd: 482: can't cd to /path/repo/.git/refs/remotes/origin > > fatal: : not a valid SHA1 > > fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD > > > > It's kind of hard to guess where the error comes from in this case (I blamed > > Git at first). Is there some way to improve the error message in a case like > > this? > > git-clone is supposed to detect this condition, but there was a bug in > the error checking code. Can you confirm that this patch fixes it? Yes, this patch seems to fix it. Thanks. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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