Re: git gc gives "error: Could not read..."

From: Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
Date: Jun 1, 2015, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID: <556C2F1B.1060508@atlas-elektronik.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150601095850.GD31389@peff.net>

Am 01.06.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Jeff King:

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> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Stefan Näwe wrote:
> 
>> Maybe this one:
>>
>>    d3038d (prune: keep objects reachable from recent objects)
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
>> It would be really helpful if you sent the patch as an attachment.
>> I know that's not the normal wokflow but our mail server garbles every
>> message so that I can't (or don't know how to...) use 'git am' to test
>> the patch, which I'm willing to do!
> 
> It ended up as a patch series. However, you can fetch it from:
> 
>   git://github.com/peff/git.git jk/silence-unreachable-broken-links
> 
> which is perhaps even easier.

Not really in my situation...(but that's another story)

I managed to create patch files by simply copy-and-pasting the message text (and the From:, Date:, and Subject: fields from 'View message source' in Thunderbird...) which I could then 'git am' ;-)

The patches applied (and compiled) cleanly on v2.4.2 and 'git gc' stopped giving me the error message.

So (FWIW):

Tested-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>

Anything else I could test ?

Thanks,
  Stefan

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