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Re: fetch fails with a short read of received pack

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Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Date
Oct 9, 2008, 20:24 UTC
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<2008-10-09-22-24-15+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
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>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

Alex> Somehow I got my gnulib mirror to a strange state where I can't Alex> fetch anything from it:

You're the third person to report this problem in three days (I was the second one). I thought my repository or the upstream one (GCC) was corrupted in some ways, but it looks like a general problem.

Alex> fatal: premature end of pack file, 1745 bytes missing Alex> fatal: index-pack failed

Alex> This is with current Shawn's master (Junio's master erroneously Alex> gives an error).

The error message has been fixed three days ago, it hasn't reached Junio's repository yet.

Alex> Bisect points at ac0463ed44e859c84e354cd0ae47d9b5b124e112

Incidentally, my first "git fetch" problem was around September 8 if I remember correctly, so this looks plausible to have had the bug around the date of the commit you mention (Aug 29).

 Sam
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Message 2 of 7 in “fetch fails with a short read of received pack”
  1. Alex RiesenOct 9, 2008
  2. Samuel TardieuOct 9, 2008
  3. Nicolas PitreOct 9, 2008
  4. fix pread()'s short read in index-packNicolas Pitre, Oct 10, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenOct 10, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceOct 10, 2008
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 10, 2008

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