From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:21:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-http-pull broken in latest git
Message-ID: <7v4q9wf4ad.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050811223349.GI25280@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> $ git-cat-file commit bf570303153902ec3d85570ed24515bcf8948848 | grep tree
> tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
> $ git-read-tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
> fatal: failed to unpack tree object 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45

> Kaboom. I think the issue might be that the reference dependency tree
> building is broken and it should've pulled the other pack as well.

Last time I checked, git-http-pull did not utilize the pack
dependency information, which indeed is wrong.  When it decides
to fetch a pack instead of an asked-for object, it should check
which commits the pack expects to have in your local repository
and add them to its list of things to slurp.

A good news is that "git clone" as a whole works fine.

    prompt$ cd /var/tmp/
    prompt$ rm -fr junk
    prompt$ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git junk
    defaulting to local storage area
    prompt$ cd junk
    prompt$ git-cat-file commit bf570303153902ec3d85570ed24515bcf8948848 |
            grep tree
    tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
    prompt$ git-read-tree 41f10531f1799bbb31a1e0f7652363154ce96f45
    prompt$ /bin/ls .git/objects/pack
    pack-37cba29d3df65b160afabe769470f7857f98d729.idx
    pack-37cba29d3df65b160afabe769470f7857f98d729.pack
    pack-3c5133604508466855453f3e609428f4bbba9131.idx
    pack-3c5133604508466855453f3e609428f4bbba9131.pack
    prompt$