Re: Error with GIT Repository

Luxenberg, Scott I. wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I have been trying to create/run a build farm as part of a project I am
> working on. 

That seems an odd thing to do since we have one ...

> However, I have noticed the primary git repostitory,
> git.postgresql.org/git, does not seem to be working. Namely, whenever I
> try to clone the directory, I receive this error:
>
> Error: Unable to find 5e4933c31d3cd2750ee1793efe6eca43055fb273e under
> http://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
> Cannot obtain needed blob 5e4933c31d3cd2750ee1793efe6eca4305fb273e while
> processing commit c5609c66ce2ee4fdb180be95721252b47f90499
> Error: fetch failed.
>
> I thought it would be prudent to notify the list so someone could
> possibly check into this.
>
>
>   


Why are you cloning over http? Here is the best way to clone, which 
seems to be working:

    [andrew@sophia ]$ git clone --mirror
    git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andrew/postgresql.git/
    remote: Counting objects: 376865, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (87569/87569), done.
    remote: Total 376865 (delta 310187), reused 352950 (delta 287485)
    Receiving objects: 100% (376865/376865), 178.73 MiB | 251 KiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (310187/310187), done.
    [andrew@sophia ]$

cheers

andrew