FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
Date: Dec 3, 2014, 23:31 UTC
Message-ID: <64C98FC352BD45EC9632202946A081E1@black>

I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up.

It seems to be a problem for others too.

Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lindbergh
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07
To: cygwin
Subject: Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object"

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us> wrote:

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> [copy off list, because the sourceware system admins throws temper tantrums]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave L
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 15:30
>>
>> ...but the git from github.com works fine.
>>
>> I installed Cygwin's version of git, and get this:
>>
>>     $ git clone https://github.com/nerdfever/pic32mx-bmf
>>     Cloning into 'pic32mx-bmf'...
>>     remote: Counting objects: 12, done.
>>     remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>>     error: failed to read delta-pack base object
>>     300bdeb2fd209d24afb865584da10b78aa8fefc4
>>     fatal: unpack-objects failed
>
> What file system are you on? Local NTFS or remote?

Aha - you're right.

It works fine on a local NTFS volume.

I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a network drive (on another Windows box).

Is there a workaround? Why does this happen?

--Dave

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