From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:25:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128
Message-ID: <200612142325.kBENPF1u001043@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is with my big "every linux patch" repository that I talked about in 
> another thread.  To bring you up to speed:

[...]

> This gave me the following output:
> 
> $ git fetch
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 189146 objects.
> remote: Result has 186566 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 186566 objects.
> remote:  100% (186566/186566) done
> Unpacking 186566 objects
> fatal: failed to apply delta
> fatal: unpack-objects died with error code 128
> Fetch failure: /home/andyp/projects/temp/.git

Happened to me yesterday or so pulling the vanilla kernel (big push shortly
before 2.6.20-rc1). Trying again somewhat later went through flawlessly.
Might have been git running out of memory.
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