On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:03:08PM +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote: > >> >> I noticed that git over http(s) seems to get stale data (just done a >> >> few minutes ago): >> >> >> >> ~$ git clone http://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-sfr.git >> >> Cloning into 'upstream-sfr'... >> >> ~$ cd upstream-sfr/ >> >> ~/upstream-sfr$ git log -1 >> >> commit 475d5928b79bb78326a645863d46ff95c5e25e5a >> >> Merge: c6b7b9f 1062080 >> >> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Date: Sat Aug 2 00:07:03 2014 +0200 >> >> >> >> Merge branch '3.16-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next >> > >> > Odd - but I have an idea what might be wrong. >> > >> > Are you seeing this only with the upstream-sfr tree? >> >> Hadn't checked anything else, but looks like it also affects other trees: >> >> ~# git clone http://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus.git >> Cloning into 'upstream-linus'... >> ~$ cd upstream-linus/ >> ~/upstream-linus$ git log -1 >> commit 475d5928b79bb78326a645863d46ff95c5e25e5a >> Merge: c6b7b9f 1062080 >> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Sat Aug 2 00:07:03 2014 +0200 >> >> Merge branch '3.16-fixes' into mips-for-linux-next >> >> >> (strangely the same commit) > > The issue is a stale info/refs on the server. This file normally gets > updated when the hook hooks/post-update is ran which in turn calls > git-update-server-info but that just didn't happen. > > Can you retry? I am now able to clone a new, current tree, but updating my older tree is broken: # git pull --rebase error: Unable to find e213b27f3921a88768201638d6d358f0f0c80419 under https://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-sfr.git Cannot obtain needed blob e213b27f3921a88768201638d6d358f0f0c80419 while processing commit fd37780aa0ee04f74e4323f45492947fcef62c35. error: Fetch failed. But I can live with that. > Btw, why are you using http transport anyway? The git protocol should > be more efficient. General paranoia (https) as well as occasional stupid corporate firewalls that won't allow anything except 80 or 443. Jonas
