[Cbe-oss-dev] Corrupt arnd's cell-2.6 git tree?

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

Hello:

When trying to clone arnd's cell-2.6 git tree (as I used to do until  
recently without problems), I get this error:

fedora:~> cg-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/ 
cell-2.6.git
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Fetching pack (head and objects)...
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 0 objects.
remote: Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Indexing 0 objects.

Fetching tags...
error: refs/heads/origin does not point to a valid object!
error: unable to find 6c1ecfe7a70bebe1844c9adc9a480381a36b2d87
fatal: git-cat-file 6c1ecfe7a70bebe1844c9adc9a480381a36b2d87: bad file
error: unable to find 6c1ecfe7a70bebe1844c9adc9a480381a36b2d87
fatal: git-cat-file 6c1ecfe7a70bebe1844c9adc9a480381a36b2d87: bad file
Invalid commit id: 6c1ecfe7a70bebe1844c9adc9a480381a36b2d87
New branch:
fatal: failed to unpack tree object HEAD
cg-fetch: initial checkout failed
fedora:~>

Am I not supposed to do this any more or is there something really  
broken in the repository?

Could the master branch be brought up to date and contain the last  
updates to Cell code (basically all those changes to the spufs), yet  
preserving the support for the systemsim?

Aside that, I see that the cell-2.6.git repository has multiple  
branches.  Is their purpose documented somewhere?

Thank you.

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>