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Re: Be more careful about updating refs

From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20080117105635.GA12285@hashpling.org>
In-Reply-To
<20080117091558.GA8341@hashpling.org>
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:15:58AM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote:
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> 
> c3b0dec509fe136c5417422f31898b5a4e2d5e02 is first bad commit
> 
> I just thought I should warn you that this seems (git bisect tells me
> so) to have caused a failure in t9301-fast-export.sh on my Mac OS X
> 10.4.11 machine although I haven't yet had the time to investigate
> why.
>

Further to this, the first problem is that the 'fast-export | fast-import' test is failing.

As far as I can tell, fast-export is behaving no differently, the generated export file looks identical in shape. It seems that fast-import is creating a bad temporary packfile for itself.

The error that I'm getting is:

fatal: unknown object type 0 in .git/objects/pack/pack-6be2b92c2d7485fd5cefbb0d9a68827e4c23d548.pack fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_12317

which seems to come from the unpack_entry function in sha1_file.c.

I haven't got much deeper into how the refs.c change has caused the issue, or why on earth it seems to be a Mac only issue.

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  1. Linus TorvaldsJan 15, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsJan 16, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  4. Charles BaileyJan 17, 2008
  5. Johannes SixtJan 17, 2008
  6. Charles BaileyJan 17, 2008
  7. Johannes SixtJan 17, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  9. Charles BaileyJan 17, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2008
  14. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  15. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  16. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  17. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  18. Shawn O. PearceJan 18, 2008
  19. Charles BaileyJan 17, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  21. Linus TorvaldsJan 16, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2008
  23. Sam VilainJan 23, 2008

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