Re: Remote corruption issue, linked to thin pack code?

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Aug 26, 2010, 07:13 UTC
Message-ID: <201008260914.00741.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1008252107070.622@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> > The respective repos show no errors with git-fsck.
> 
> What about 'git fsck --full'?  Given git v1.5.4 on the remote, you 
> should try --full with 'git fsck' as this wasn't the default back then.

Well, I instructed him to try --full, as you can see in the conversation:

  http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2010-08-25#l2196

Nothing interesting.

> >   http://eloxoph.com/localrepo.zip
> >   http://eloxoph.com/remoterepo.zip
> 
> 2010-08-25 21:24:52 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Hrm.  Apparently a mis-edit on my part, it should be

  http://eloxoph.com/remoteserverrepo.zip

> How do you know it is there while git (on the remote) is telling you it 
> is not?
> 
> What about 'git cat-file -t e28ae6b61c384732c506' ?

It's fine in my unpacked copy. Jonas, what were the results on the server?

> Maybe after I can reproduce this issue locally.

As a side note, I couldn't reproduce locally with the above repos but then I didn't have the time to downgrade to 1.5.4.

Jonas also has to answer the rest of the questions for obvious reasons. (I'm away from the net for a few days anyway...)

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch