Unable to git clone git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git

During the OpenWrt build process, the Raspberry firmware is being cloned from 
git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git and this fails with the following 
message:

make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/nathan/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/package/brcm2708-gpu-fw'
mkdir -p /home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/downloads
echo "Checking out files from the git repository..."; mkdir -p 
/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/tmp/dl && cd 
/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/tmp/dl && rm -rf 
brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030 && [ \! -d brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030 ] && git clone 
git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030 --recursive 
&& (cd brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030 && git checkout 
537c78b113d06e37e2cca90a0b3d3f39a129ee23) && echo "Packing checkout..." && rm 
-rf brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030/.git &&    /bin/tar cfj 
/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/tmp/dl/brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030.ta
r.bz2 brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030 && mv 
/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/tmp/dl/brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030.ta
r.bz2 /home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/downloads/ && rm -rf 
brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030; 
Checking out files from the git repository...
Cloning into 'brcm2708-gpu-fw-20121030'...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
make[3]: *** 
[/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/downloads/brcm2708-gpu-fw-2012103
0.tar.bz2] Error 128
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/package/brcm2708-gpu-fw'
make[2]: *** [package/brcm2708-gpu-fw/compile] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt'
make[1]: *** 
[/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt/staging_dir/target-arm_v6_eglibc-
2.15_eabi/stamp/.package_compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/<user>/Projects/rpi/raspberrypi-openwrt'
make: *** [world] Error 2

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nathan.h...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2012 at 9:29

flumpy33 / raspberrypi-openwrt

Unable to git clone git://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.git #8