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Re: Problem fetching the git homepage

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 28, 2008, 16:39 UTC
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<7v1w3mwffq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> writes:
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> I'm trying to fetch the repo of the git homepage but get this error:
>
> $ git version
> git version 1.5.6.rc0.140.ga9675
> $ git fetch origin
> Getting alternates list for http://repo.or.cz/r/git-homepage.git
> Getting pack list for http://repo.or.cz/r/git-homepage.git
> Getting index for pack d4404a860edd30b154e8cd5b8c66ec35cf682dae
> Getting pack d4404a860edd30b154e8cd5b8c66ec35cf682dae
>  which contains 50819d376acb03429ab2628ef3d07893c7f0e22c
> error: packfile
> .git/objects/pack/pack-d4404a860edd30b154e8cd5b8c66ec35cf682dae.pack
> size changed
> fatal: packfile
> .git/objects/pack/pack-d4404a860edd30b154e8cd5b8c66ec35cf682dae.pack
> cannot be accessed
>
> The last commit I have is "Automated update: [2008-04-20] v1.5.5 ->
> v1.5.5.1" (2b7e2d6a).
>
> Is this due to something I've done?  (Not even sure from the error
> message if it is a local error, or a remote error.) Or a sign of
> something more serious?

Thanks for reporting. This is a breakage in 633f43e (Remove redundant code, eliminate one static variable, 2008-05-24).

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  3. fix sha1_pack_index_name()Junio C Hamano, May 28, 2008
  4. Gustaf HendebyMay 28, 2008

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