Re: heads-up: git-index-pack in "next" is broken

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 17, 2006, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <7vslhnj58e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610171134130.1971@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I'm still a bit under the weather and do not have enough
>> concentration to dig into the problem tonight, but I noticed
>> that something in "next", most likely the delta-base-offset
>> patchset, broke git-index-pack:
>> 
>> $ X=ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd
>> $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/objects/pack/pack-$X.pack
>> $ ~/git-master/bin/git-index-pack pack-$X.pack
>> ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd
>> $ git-index-pack pack-$X.pack
>> fatal: packfile 'pack-ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd.pack' has unresolved deltas
>
> Using the tip of the "next" branch (git version 1.4.2.4.gf9fe) I just 
> cannot reproduce this problem at all.  I always get a good index and 
> ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd back.

Hmph. I just got exactly the same breakage; could this be another 64-bit breakage? My breakage was on x86-64.