http://adams.co.tt/ 2010-03-18 http://adams.co.tt/blog/2010/03/18/problems-cloning-from-github/ 2010-03-18 2010-03-18 <p>When cloning from github, myself and others have been receiving the following error:<br /><pre>$ git clone http://github.com/rails/rails.git<br />Initialized empty Git repository in ./rails/.git/<br />got 41af6d9a78446a5219a321cf638945b1608cefd8<br />walk 41af6d9a78446a5219a321cf638945b1608cefd8<br />Getting alternates list for http://github.com/rails/rails.git<br />Getting pack list for http://github.com/rails/rails.git<br />Getting index for pack 1f58330b738a4c1046b0da9b07830f2d658e5169<br />got 95a5e284c6504e28802aa3a8168a8b7cc450a0e5<br />got fe2f383cf3c0aa6901487c398b9ae8ffce03ecbd<br />error: Unable to get pack index http://github.com/rails/rails.git/objects/pack/pack-1f58330b738a4c1046b0da9b07830f2d658e5169.idx<br /><br />Getting index for pack fc8e2c8270c16a9a2d401f1f44ddd4e5eb3ec1ce<br />Getting index for pack afc0d5bc07e84621fd69897165322a40cb9179c2<br />Getting index for pack 0dc33522bcfc9731cb6b414e4665ec9acb74e0a4<br />error: Unable to find 5b3f7563ae1b4a7160fda7fe34240d40c5777dcd under http://github.com/rails/rails.git<br />Cannot obtain needed object 5b3f7563ae1b4a7160fda7fe34240d40c5777dcd<br />while processing commit 41af6d9a78446a5219a321cf638945b1608cefd8.<br />fatal: Fetch failed.</pre><br />Turns out that github sometimes has problems with cloning over http. Using git as the protocol seems to be less error prone and much quicker:<br /><br /><pre>$ git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git</pre></p>