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Re: Possible problem with git-pasky-0.6.2 (patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.)I

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SCSteven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2005, 00:20 UTC
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<200504201820.27497.elenstev@mesatop.com>
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<200504201715.00058.elenstev@mesatop.com>
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 05:15 pm, Steven Cole wrote:
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> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 05:12 pm, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:06:09AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> told me that...
> > > After getting the latest tarball, and make, make install:
> > > 
> > > Tree change: 55f9d5042603fff4ddfaf4e5f004d2995286d6d3:a46844fcb6afef1f7a2d93f391c82f08ea322221
> > > *100755->100755 blob    a78cf8ccab98861ef7aecb4cb5a79e47d3a84b67->74b4083d67eda87d88a6f92c6c66877bba8bda8a     gitcancel.sh
> > > Tracked branch, applying changes...
> > > Fast-forwarding 55f9d5042603fff4ddfaf4e5f004d2995286d6d3 -> a46844fcb6afef1f7a2d93f391c82f08ea322221
> > >         on top of 55f9d5042603fff4ddfaf4e5f004d2995286d6d3...
> > > patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
> > > 
> > > This may be a harmless message, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention.
> > 
> > This _is_ weird. What does
> > 
> > 	$ git diff -r 55f9d5042603fff4ddfaf4e5f004d2995286d6d3:a46844fcb6afef1f7a2d93f391c82f08ea32222
> > 
> > tell you? 
> 
> [steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2]$ git diff -r 55f9d5042603fff4ddfaf4e5f004d2995286d6d3:a46844fcb6afef1f7a2d93f391c82f08ea32222
> Index: gitcancel.sh
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> 
> > What if you feed it to patch -p1? 
> I haven't done that yet, awaiting response to above.
> 
> > What if you feed it to git  
> > apply?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> Your're welcome.  I'll do the "git patch -p1 <stuff_from_above" if that's what's needed,
> same with git apply.  Corrrections to syntax apprceciated.
> Steven
Actually, I meant "patch -p1 <stuff_from_above".

But before doing that, I did a fsck-cache as follows, with these results. This seems damaged.

[steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2]$ fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/HEAD) root 1bf00e46973f7f1c40bc898f1346a1273f0a347f unreachable commit 0128396de7ca8a7dc74f6fbff59a68bb781bb9b2 unreachable blob 012c82312c99606f914bda5c501b616237a3b7e9 unreachable tree 02a1b5337f78b807d4404f473e55c44f4273d2f8

[ lots of snippage...]

unreachable blob fee26cc5b378819ff48ef8cb54c35744c0f1c17f unreachable tree fff7294434014ea68153770da3965ed315806499

[steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2]$ fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/HEAD) | wc -l 467

I renamed the repo to git-pasky-0.6.2-damaged, and repeated untarring the 0.6.2 tarball, make, (didn't do make install this time), and repeated "git pull pasky" with similar results as before.

[steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2-damaged]$ cat .git/HEAD a46844fcb6afef1f7a2d93f391c82f08ea322221 [steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2-damaged]$ cd ../git-pasky-0.6.2 [steven@spc git-pasky-0.6.2]$ cat .git/HEAD 7a4c67965de68ae7bc7aa1fde33f8eb9d8114697

Hope this helps, Steven

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