git-clone problem

[Zachary Kline]

John Heim wrote:
> When I try to download the speakup patches, first it prints lots of 
> messages about things it got but after a while I get the following 
> error message:
>
> # git-clone -q http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git
> ...
> got 607e0c28e1ece0eaf00046d93aeaae5fe49596a7
> got 20505672e3bb0c16dcc14ccbf4e81077cb5ce43b
> got c9f80946b82950bd7c2c5b272353d4d8507550a6
> got 75ac1aab4b2cb897b8fb4dd6f1e551d7ff2ca665
> error: Couldn't get 
> http://linux-speakup.org/speakup.git/refs/tags/k2.6.24 for tags/
> k2.6.24
> The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: Could not interpret tags/k2.6.24 as something to pull
>
> Help please. My boss would really like me to build a new kernel today.
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Hi,
    Just wait a little bit and try it again.  I've had similar error 
messages and they resolved themselves within a relatively short time.
    Also, for the sake of bandwidth, once you have an initial clone I'd 
advise you to git-pull in future to save time.
Best,
Zack.