git-http-pull broken in latest git

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 11, 2005, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20050811223349.GI25280@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <42F8D472.3080404@de.bosch.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 06:06:10PM CEST, I got a letter where Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> told me that...

> Hello,

Hello,

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> >cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git 
> defaulting to local storage area
> warning: templates not found /home/user/share/git-core/templates/
> 16:29:03 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/heads/master
> [41/41] -> "refs/heads/origin" [1]
> progress: 3 objects, 5158 bytes
> Getting pack list
> error: Unable to get pack index
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git//objects/info/packs
> error: Tried
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/objects/6f/f87c4664981e4397625791c8ea3bbb5f2279a3
> Cannot obtain needed blob 6ff87c4664981e4397625791c8ea3bbb5f2279a3
> while processing commit adee7bdf504120055b0f36b4918bdd3e6156912b.
> cg-pull: objects pull failed
> cg-clone: pull failed
> 
> Is this a tool or repository issue?

it appears that git-http-pull is broken. It gives me a different error now and with the latest git, though. When using just core git:

$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/refs/heads/master
$ mv master .git/refs/heads/
$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
bf570303153902ec3d85570ed24515bcf8948848
$ git-http-pull -a -v $(cat .git/refs/heads/master) \
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
Getting pack list
Getting index for pack 3c5133604508466855453f3e609428f4bbba9131
Getting index for pack 37cba29d3df65b160afabe769470f7857f98d729
Getting pack 37cba29d3df65b160afabe769470f7857f98d729
 which contains bf570303153902ec3d85570ed24515bcf8948848
$ git-cat-file commit bf570303153902ec3d85570ed24515bcf8948848 | grep tree
tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
$ git-read-tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
fatal: failed to unpack tree object 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45

Kaboom. I think the issue might be that the reference dependency tree building is broken and it should've pulled the other pack as well.

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