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Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2007, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID
<17893.45167.334963.409569@lisa.zopyra.com>
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<20070228163256.GD5479@spearce.org>
On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:32:56 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
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>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> >The code has this:
>> >
>> >        unsigned long from = obj[0].offset + obj[0].hdr_size;
>> >        unsigned long len = obj[1].offset - from;
>> >
>> >by "offset", do you want obj[0].offset and obj[1].offset?
>> >
>> >How do I get the size of the packfile?  Is it obj->size?
>
>I meant something like this:
>...

% cd ~/devel/project % git-fsck --full % cd - % git clone --bare ~/devel/project [...] fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=39395, packfile size=2 fatal: index-pack died with error code 128

And, again, this works fine on my non-mounted file system:
% cd ~/test
% git clone --bare ~/devel/project
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/blear/test/project/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 4594 objects.
remote: Deltifying 4594 objects.
remote:  100% (4594/4594) done
Indexing 4594 objects.
remote: Total 4594 (delta 2210), reused 4591 (delta 2209)
 100% (4594/4594) done
Resolving 2210 deltas.
 100% (2210/2210) done
Bill
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