cannot git clone... (regard as FYI)

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Michael Felt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe you are just busy with updates, and it is not insync long enough, but I
> am currently unable to use git to clone openssh..
> 
> Details:
> 
> michael at x071:[/data/prj/openbsd/openssh]git clone
> https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git openssh-master
> Cloning into 'openssh-master'...
> error: Unable to get pack file
> https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/objects/pack/pack-9578955a44fc3ae017246ca6233602d2f01af88e.pack
> transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
> error: Unable to find bca9c66a906e3de0df1067ca95f6880d8aa4a8f5 under
[etc]

Not sure what went wrong there. I've done a git fsck/gc and clone seems
to work now.

As Darren pointed out, you can use the github mirror, but also the
https-served copy at https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git

-d