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Re: [BUG?] Fail to pull from kernel.org: pack has bad object

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Oct 20, 2008, 08:26 UTC
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<200810201026.57306.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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<200810201010.29173.johan@herland.net>
Jonathan Herland wrote:
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> Currently I get the following error when trying to pull from git.git at 
> kernel.org:
> 
> $ git pull
> remote: Counting objects: 279, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done.
> remote: Total 177 (delta 136), reused 135 (delta 99)
> Receiving objects: 100% (177/177), 66.59 KiB | 59 KiB/s, done.
> fatal: pack has bad object at offset 53487: failed to apply delta
> fatal: index-pack failed

I just had the same, panicked, then compiled 'maint' and the fetch worked. Unfortunately I wasn't awake enough to make a copy of the repo. Maybe you can make one, then use it to bisect the problem between maint and next...

- Thomas
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  2. Thomas RastOct 20, 2008
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  4. Nicolas PitreOct 20, 2008
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