rowboat-gingerbread branch: device-common.git missing

```
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. repo init -u git://gitorious.org/rowboat/manifest.git -m
rowboat-gingerbread.xml
2. repo sync

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ubuntu 10.10

Please provide any additional information below.

Snippet of the repo sync output

Initializing project development ...
remote: Counting objects: 36530, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12109/12109), done.
remote: Total 36530 (delta 19899), reused 35388 (delta 18765)
Receiving objects: 100% (36530/36530), 34.28 MiB | 3.19 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19899/19899), done.
From git://gitorious.org/rowboat/development
* [new branch] master -> rowboat/master
* [new branch] rowboat-eclair -> rowboat/rowboat-eclair
* [new branch] rowboat-froyo -> rowboat/rowboat-froyo
* [new branch] rowboat-gingerbread -> rowboat/rowboat-gingerbread
Fetching projects: 5% (9/170)
Initializing project device-common ...
fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got '
----------------------------------------------
Cannot find repository /rowboat/device-common.git
----------------------------------------------'
error: Cannot fetch device-common
```

Original issue reported on code.google.com by `hedwin.k...@gmail.com` on 20 Jan 2011 at 9:36

Start with the rowboat-gingerbread.xml manifest and reproduce the failure using repo sync on the reported Ubuntu environment. Trace the device-common project reference and determine why /rowboat/device-common.git cannot be found; done means the manifest sync fetches device-common successfully.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.