From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:34:00 GMT Subject: Re: fatal: cannot store pack file (git 1.6.0.2 + sshfs) Message-ID: <20080924163400.GU3669@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <87iqsmy8q7.fsf@sms.ed.ac.uk> Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > I'm getting the following when running git on a partition mounted with > sshfs: > > $ git pull ... > error: unable to write sha1 filename .git/objects/pack/pack-dc5c3614e795918f457a2f98a58f10134ebf246b.pack: Operation not permitted > fatal: cannot store pack file > fatal: index-pack failed > > git pull worked fine in the same repository yesterday (new files where > committed in the meantime). > > I'm not sure if this is a problem in git or in sshfs (or somewhere > else). Its the size of the fetch. The day before you probably had a smaller number of objects downloaded (<100) so Git used unpack-objects instead of index-pack. Yesterday it was a larger download (>100), so it used index-pack. In 1.6.0.2 index-pack writes a temporary file to .git/objects but later tries to rename it into .git/objects/pack. That renaming must not be working on sshfs. Latest "master" has a change from Pasky (8b4eb6b6 "Do not perform cross-directory renames") that should fix this issue. Or just don't use sshfs. Or teach sshfs to rename across directories. -- Shawn.