Re: Bad objects error since upgrading GitHub servers to 1.6.1

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 28, 2009, 03:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20090128035703.GG1321@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <p06240812c5a58676a1e2@[63.138.152.192]>

Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook.org> wrote:

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> At 7:30 PM -0800 1/27/09, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> PJ - the short story here is, to forever work around these buggy
>> 1.6.1 clients, you'd have to either run an old server forever,
>> or forever run a patched server that disables the newer ".have"
>> extension in the advertised data written by git-upload-pack.
>> There just isn't a way to hide this from the client.
>>
>> Really though, I'd recommend getting your users to upgrade to a
>> non-buggy client.  Pasky has the same problem on repo.or.cz; if
>> he doesn't have it already he will soon when he upgrades...
>
> Do you know if this problem is fixed in tag v1.6.1.1?
>
>   Tagger: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>   Date:   Sun Jan 25 12:41:48 2009 -0800
>   commit 5c415311f743ccb11a50f350ff1c385778f049d6

Without even checking Git I can tell you it isn't fixed by 1.6.1.1.

The date on the tag is Jan 25th, 2 full days before PJ reported the problem and a solution was proposed...

-- 
Shawn.