Subject: Re: "error: non-monotonic index" during fresh linux-2.6.git cloning.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:10:04 -0700

Evgeniy Polyakov <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ git clone http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> Getting alternates list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> Getting pack list for http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> Getting index for pack 81cec7c6b26c755e466a79de8dbe1c7b827a48d6
> error: non-monotonic index
> /usr/bin/git-clone: line 33:  2025 Segmentation fault git-http-fetch -v -a -w "$tname" "$name" "$1/"
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.4.4.4

The repository you are cloning uses pack idx version #2; 1.4.4.4 predates it
by a wide margin.