Eric Blake wrote: > > This occurs when cloning via the git: protocol. Can you instead clone > with the http: protocol to work around it? I still haven't had time to > try and figure out why this fails for some repositories, but not others. >
I've also noticed this failing for a while now. Using http instead does work, although it is quite slow and does not work for all repos.
Here's a sample fail: $ git clone git://git.musicpd.org/master/mpd.git Initialized empty Git repository in /a/dt/test/mpd/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 33108, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12495/12495), done. fatal: read error on input: Bad address.00 KiB | 78 KiB/s fatal: index-pack failed - Ian Kelling -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/