Junio, Thank you for your good explanation. Also thanks to Miklos Vajna who also replied to suggest using git:// transport. (Over 3 years ago I used git glone to get a copy of torvalds/linux-2.6.git using rsync transport and I copied the recipe I used then. It has been working for "git pull" updates, and for one from-scratch re-clone I did sometime last year. I had no reason to suspect it was broken.) This morning I re-started the clone using git:// transport and it worked OK. -Tim Shepard shep@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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