gnome-common git migration problem?

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

Git checkout gives me an error ("Object
56e99a3796075fb134a10bd0adc3afc86917b8fa not a commit"), and then some
files are missing and it doesn't build:


gjc dark-tower:gnome$ git clone gnome:gnome-common
Initialized empty Git repository
in /home/gjc/projects/gnome/gnome-common/.git/
error: Object 56e99a3796075fb134a10bd0adc3afc86917b8fa not a commit
remote: Counting objects: 910, done.
remote: Cremote: ompressing objects: 100% (312/312), done.
remote: Total 910 (delta 587), reused 910 (delta 587)
Receiving objects: 100% (910/910), 291.12 KiB | 73 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (587/587), done.
gjc dark-tower:gnome$ ls gnome-common/
autogen.sh*  ChangeLog  configure.in  doc-build/  macros2/  MAINTAINERS
Makefile.am
gjc dark-tower:gnome$ cd gnome-common/
gjc dark-tower:gnome-common$ ./autogen.sh 
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.61
checking for automake >= 1.9...
  testing automake-1.10... not found.
  testing automake-1.9... found 1.9.6
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
**Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
`./autogen.sh' command line.

Processing ./configure.in
Running aclocal-1.9...
Running autoconf...
Running automake-1.9...
configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
configure.in: installing `./missing'
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: installing `./COPYING'
configure.in:14: required file `gnome-common.spec.in' not found
configure.in:14: required file `macros2/Makefile.in' not found
configure.in:14: required file `doc-build/Makefile.in' not found



-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
"The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert