Problem with GIT (checkout)

dakyaze · wrote on 30 Nov 2011, 12:41

Hi,
I read the source "README" of Qt-Creater source archive.
I installed everything needed, but Git starts and after a while, I have that:

R:\msysgit\checkout>git clone git://gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator.git qt-creator
Cloning into qt-creator...
remote: Counting objects: 255482, done.
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

git is msysgit, perl is installed, VS2010 is used, git in path, perl in path, qt-creator subdir exists.
And qt-creator dir is gone after that error messages.
Environment: Win2008R2 (admin rights)

Thank you for your help...

lgeyer · wrote on 30 Nov 2011, 12:48

Just keep on trying. msysgit will time-out when checking out large amounts of code (qtwebkit in qt5 is another candidate) but it usually works somewhen.

dakyaze · wrote on 30 Nov 2011, 12:57

Hi, Lukas,
is there an alternative to msysgit ?

tomma · wrote on 30 Nov 2011, 13:01

Try using https or ssh as transfer protocol.
Some point i couldn't clone anything from gitorious using git protocol.

lgeyer · wrote on 30 Nov 2011, 13:41

[quote author="Peter/AZE GmbH" date="1322657843"]Hi, Lukas,
is there an alternative to msysgit ? [/quote]

There should be a cygwin port and a Java implementation called JGit. But I use msysgit on a daily basis and it usually just works fine. I have had these time-out problems but they usually vanish after a few tries.