Errors received during git pull from linux-2.6.git, but resulting kernel looks OK.

Executive summary: I received some alarming errors while doing a git pull of the latest kernel from kernel.org, but it appears that all is well. Continue reading for the gory details.

I updated my git-pasky tools this morning, by doing "git pasky pull", "make", "make install".

Working from a repo converted yesterday using Linus'instructions and subsequently successfully updated once:

[steven@spc0 linux-2.6-origin]$ git lsremote
origin  rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
[steven@spc0 linux-2.6-origin]$ time git pull origin
MOTD:
MOTD:   Welcome to the Linux Kernel Archive.
MOTD:
MOTD:   Due to U.S. Exports Regulations, all cryptographic software on this
MOTD:   site is subject to the following legal notice:
MOTD:
MOTD:   This site includes publicly available encryption source code
MOTD:   which, together with object code resulting from the compiling of
MOTD:   publicly available source code, may be exported from the United
MOTD:   States under License Exception "TSU" pursuant to 15 C.F.R. Section
MOTD:   740.13(e).
MOTD:
MOTD:   This legal notice applies to cryptographic software only.
MOTD:   Please see the Bureau of Industry and Security,
MOTD:   http://www.bis.doc.gov/ for more information about current
MOTD:   U.S. regulations.
MOTD:

receiving file list ... done 18/13b464853cba4439b3c30412059ed6284114a0 8d/a3a306d0c0c070d87048d14a033df02f40a154 a2/755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb

sent 181 bytes received 952105 bytes 272081.71 bytes/sec total size is 63450766 speedup is 66.63

receiving file list ... done
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?
Tree change: 4d78b6c78ae6d87e4c1c8072f42efa716f04afb9:a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb
*100644->100644 blob    8e5f9bbdf4de94a1bc4b4da8cb06677ce0a57716->8da3a306d0c0c070d87048d14a033df02f40a154     Makefile
Tracked branch, applying changes...
Fast-forwarding 4d78b6c78ae6d87e4c1c8072f42efa716f04afb9 -> a2755a80f40e5794ddc20e00f781af9d6320fafb
         on top of 4d78b6c78ae6d87e4c1c8072f42efa716f04afb9...
error: bad index version
error: verify header failed
read_cache: Invalid argument
gitdiff.sh: no files matched
error: bad index version
error: verify header failed

real 6m4.771s user 0m16.538s sys 0m12.952s [steven@spc0 linux-2.6-origin]$

Maybe those errors are "harmless".  Checking out the new repo:

[steven@spc0 linux-2.6-origin]$ git export ../linux-2.6.12-rc3 [steven@spc0 linux-2.6-origin]$ cd .. [steven@spc0 GIT]$ diff -urN linux-2.6.11 linux-2.6.12-rc3 >gitdiff-2.6.12-rc3

So, now I have patch-2.6.12-rc3 from kernel.org and gitdiff-2.6.12-rc3 made above.

[steven@spc0 GIT]$ diffstat gitdiff-2.6.12-rc3 | tail -n 2
  sound/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c                              |    1
  4622 files changed, 271839 insertions(+), 156792 deletions(-)

[steven@spc0 GIT]$ diffstat patch-2.6.12-rc3 | tail -n 2
  sound/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c                              |    1
  4622 files changed, 271839 insertions(+), 156792 deletions(-)

Despite the errors from the "git pull", the files look OK.

Steven