Re: [regression] Newer gits cannot clone any remote repos

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Nov 13, 2012, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <50A2978D.6080805@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CACYvZ7jPd0_XD6YVdfJ2AnKRnKewmzX4uu7w3zt+_gK+qU49gQ@mail.gmail.com>

Douglas Mencken wrote:

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> *Any* git clone fails with:
> 
> fatal: premature end of pack file, 106 bytes missing
> fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> At first, I tried 1.8.0, and it failed. Then I tried to build 1.7.10.5
> then, and it worked. Then I tried 1.7.12.2, but it fails the same way
> as 1.8.0.
> So I decided to git bisect.
> 
> b8a2486f1524947f232f657e9f2ebf44e3e7a243 is the first bad commit
> ``index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving''

This looks like the same problem I had on cygwin, which lead to commit c0f86547c ("index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin", 26-06-2012).

I didn't notice which platform you are on, but maybe you also have a thread-unsafe pread()? Could you try re-building git with the NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD build variable set?

HTH.

ATB, Ramsay Jones