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Re: cannot pread pack

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
May 6, 2011, 03:08 UTC
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<20110506030815.GA22869@elie>
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<BANLkTi=FDah2SGKzXWxsAv-xxH0SYirt9w@mail.gmail.com>
Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Upgrade Git. The pread() bug was fixed post 1.6.0.2, I don't remember
> what version, but I would suggest moving to one of the later 1.7.x
> releases.

Yep. Probably v1.6.0.3~23 (fix pread()'s short read in index-pack, 2008-10-09). The maint-1.6.0 branch has many other nice fixes, in case you need to avoid version numbers starting with "1.7" or "1.6.6" for whatever reason.

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  1. richard parkinsMay 4, 2011
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