From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:02:14 GMT
Subject: Re: strange error while pushing
Message-ID: <20091213230214.GA27365@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e0912131441i370d9c23r65c42fe1f46bd194@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:41:49PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> I was going to push some stuff I'm working on to my repo at
> repo.or.cz, and just got the following error:
> 
> $ GIT_TRACE=1 git push kusma work/daemon-win32:work/daemon-win32-process
> trace: built-in: git 'push' 'kusma'
> 'work/daemon-win32:work/daemon-win32-process'
> trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'repo.or.cz' 'git-receive-pack
> '\''/srv/git/git/kusma.git'\'''
> trace: run_command: 'pack-objects' '--all-progress-implied' '--revs'
> '--stdout' '--thin'
> trace: built-in: git 'pack-objects' '--all-progress-implied' '--revs'
> '--stdout' '--thin'

I notice your pack-objects is being called with the new
--all-progress-implied, and then you get a usage error with
pack-objects:

> usage: git pack-objects [{ -q | --progress | --all-progress }]
>         [--max-pack-size=N] [--local] [--incremental]
>         [--window=N] [--window-memory=N] [--depth=N]
>         [--no-reuse-delta] [--no-reuse-object] [--delta-base-offset]
>         [--threads=N] [--non-empty] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--reflog]
>         [--stdout | base-name] [--include-tag]
>         [--keep-unreachable | --unpack-unreachable]
>         [<ref-list | <object-list]

Is it possible you have a new git accidentally calling an old version of
pack-objects?

-Peff