From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 03:08:15 GMT
Subject: Re: cannot pread pack
Message-ID: <20110506030815.GA22869@elie>
In-Reply-To: <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.