Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 17, 2012, 03:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfw7mxlto.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120817014526.GA447@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:05:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, but there may be old bugs in the server version that have since
> been fixed. For example, the bug fixed by 838cd346 might be the cause of
> this (that fix went into 1.6.0.3).

Yeah, Lars said 1.6.x above, but in the response it turns out the version used is 1.6.0.2, so lack of that commit is a very likely reason.

Thanks.