From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:26:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Fail to pull from kernel.org: pack has bad object
Message-ID: <200810201026.57306.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200810201010.29173.johan@herland.net>

Jonathan Herland wrote:
>
> 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
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