From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:37:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128
Message-ID: <7vy7p8llql.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151706150.18171@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> I really doubt it is a compatibility problem.  The provided error 
> message may only result from the fact that patch_delta() has returned 
> NULL.
>
> And since patch-delta is really simple, it doesn't have many reasons for 
> returning NULL: either the object store on either the remote or local 
> side is corrupted in which case a git-fsck-objects --full should catch 
> that, or the system ran out of memory.

Hmmmm.  True and sad.  Sad because I do not offhand think of
places to trim the memory usage.