Re: git-1.4.1.1-1 git-clone-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2006, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20060725202358.GI23286@h4x0r5.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607251655360.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:57:39PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:13 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > Having finally acquired DSL (only 400kbps, but at least I'm in the
> > > twentieth century [not typo]), I decided to finally give git a try.  I
> > > installed git-1.4.1.1-1, and armed myself with Jeff's how-to.  I didn't
> > > get far before git saved me the trouble of truly testing my resolve :)
> > > 
> > > 	-Mike
> > > 
> > > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
> > 
> > Oops, missed a line.
> > 
> > fatal: packfile '/usr/local/src/tmp/linux-2.6/.git/objects/pack/tmp-nE9k3G' SHA1 mismatch
> > 
> > > error: git-clone-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack
> > > error: git-index-pack died with error code 128
> > > clone-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git' failed
> 
> Was this after about 10 minutes? I had the impression that this was fixed 
> with the 1.4.1.1 version _on the server side_. See
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=a0764cb838c2f1885fb58ca794c21523fb05c825
> 
> for details. So, please be patient until kernel.org's server is updated.

Or do your initial clone as:

git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6 cd linux-2.6 && sed -i -e 's/rsync/git/g' .git/remotes/origin

(The preferred thing is for the method you used to work, but the above will avoid the bug for the moment.)

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere