git pull/clone over rsync broken

[Clayne Robison]

I can't update MIC using 'git clone rsync://moblin.org/repos/tools/moblin-image-creator.git'. git pull
doesn't work either. The sync appears to be working, but then at the very end of the download, I get:

Sent 98795 bytes received 10543565 bytes 150955.46 bytes/sec
Total size is 10069101 speedup is 0.95
Rsync: link_stat "tools/moblin-image-creator.git/packed-refs" (in repos)
failed: No such file or directory (2)
Rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9]
Fatal: Could not run rsync to get refs

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04. I'm behind the Intel firewall, but I have exported RSYNC_PROXY="proxy.rv.intel.com:911". I've also tried on a system that is not behind a firewall, and after removing the RSYNC_PROXY var, it still fails with:

Rsync: link_stat "tools/moblin-image-creator.git/packed-refs" (in repos)
failed: No such file or directory (2)
Rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9]
Fatal: Could not run rsync to get refs

[Clayne Robison (clayne-b-robison)]

BTW, the git over http works just fine. It's just dog slow. If we're going to abandoned the rsync method, the docs need to be changed at http://moblin.org/toolkits/prepDev/toolkits_prepDev_instImgCrtr.php

[Praj (prajwal-linux)]

I tested git clone over rsync on a hardy platform and it worked fine for me. I double checked it on a fedora system and it works fine.

[Praj (prajwal-linux)]

JohnV and I both tried on different platforms and could not reproduce this error.