git error on gnulib

[C de-Avillez]

Hi,

I am being hit by the following:

address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils $ git clone
git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils cu-git
Initialized empty Git repository
in /usr/src/buildd/coreutils/cu-git/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 141523, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (35745/35745), done.
remote: Total 141523 (delta 105659), reused 141318 (delta 105524)
Receiving objects: 100% (141523/141523), 24.86 MiB | 841 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (105659/105659), done.

address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils $ cd cu-git/

address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/cu-git $ ./bootstrap 
./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path
'gnulib'
Initialized empty Git repository
in /usr/src/buildd/coreutils/cu-git/gnulib/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 73993, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (15210/15210), done.
remote: Total 73993 (delta 59099), reused 73470 (delta 58739)
Receiving objects: 100% (73993/73993), 13.45 MiB | 1025 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (59099/59099), done.
fatal: reference is not a tree: a771b77559753840d51609c779d526590e6a0144
Unable to checkout 'a771b77559753840d51609c779d526590e6a0144' in
submodule path 'gnulib'

address@hidden:/usr/src/buildd/coreutils/cu-git $ 

As you can see, this is on a brand new git clone of coreutils.

My knowledge of git is, I am sorry to say, quite limited.

Cheers,

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