Problem cloning Linus' GIT tree!

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Gerald,

> stupid newbie question:
>
> I'm trying to get Grant Likelys latest TEMAC driver from his git-tree.
> Follwing the directions on the secretlab.ca website I start by cloning
> Linus' tree.  Since I'm behind a firewall which blocks the git port I use:
>
>    git clone
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>
> At first everything is fine and git happily seems to download the tree.
> After a while however, git exits with the following error message:
>
>    error: Couldn't get
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/refs/
>tags/v2.6.11 for tags/v2.6.11 The requested URL returned error: 404
>    error: Could not interpret tags/v2.6.11 as something to pull
>    rm: cannot remove directory
> `/cygdrive/c/home/git/linux-2.6/.git/clone-tmp': Directory not empty
>
> Any hint what I did wrong?

Try upgrading git to the last version.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart