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

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 28, 2007, 17:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20070228174339.GE5924@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17893.47007.136145.112498@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:

> Yes: 1.4.x worked fine.  This was actually my attempt to re-do the 1.4
> clone I had laying around, as I wanted my backup done with 1.5.  I
> still have the 1.4 cloned repo, just moved it out of the way...

OK, is ~/devel/project fully packed? If it isn't can you repack it (or a clone of it) so that it is?

Then take the packfile and try to feed it right into index-pack:

	mkdir /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
	cd /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
	git --bare init
	git --bare index-pack --stdin --fix-thin \
	  <~/devel/project/.git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack

Now while that is running it should be creating pack_XXXXXX as a temporary file (where XXXXXX is replaced with the temp string). Its this file that we are seeing magically truncate to 0 in the middle of running.

But I fail to see anything in index-pack that would cause this, and its the only program that knows about this file at this stage of the clone.

-- 
Shawn.