From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:05:22 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4
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Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de> writes:

>> Hrm, has this ever been resolved?
>
> Thank you for asking.
> My local git version is 1.7.5.4, the server version that I actually
> ended up pushing the files to was however still some 1.6.x.
> So it was a false alarm. Sorry about that.

Not really.  Pushing or fetching by a new version of Git against old
version of Git *should* work; otherwise it is a bug.