Problem cloning Linus' GIT tree!

[Gerald Ruescher]

Dear Laurent,

> > 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
>
> Try upgrading git to the last version.

I'm already using the latest version (1.5.1) of git but the error still persists.
A "http 404" error usually reports that something is missing on the server.
In fact, if I copy the URL above to web browser, the same error occurs.

Question: 

Do 
	git://git.kernel.org 
and	http://www.kernel.org		<-- Note the *www*(!)

physically access the same repository?  Or is the http server maybe just
a mirror of the git server (which could mean that the two could be out of sync)

If all fails I could harass our company's network admins to open
the git port in the firewall :-) but I'd prefer to fetch the tree
via http.

Any advice?  Is there anyone else who is using Linus' tree via http?

Many thanks and kind regards,
Gerald



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