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Re: something broken just now on git-pull from openbsd to OSX

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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Aug 18, 2006, 16:22 UTC
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>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:

Randal> I just updated my openbsd's GIT to 1.4.2.g55c3, and now my Randal> git-fetch from there to my OSX fails with a fatal error almost immediately.

Randal> What just changed?  What can I check?
Randal> git-fetch from other repositories to OSX seems to work fine.

Randal> Ahh, it might even be a corrupt repository... here's what Randal> a local git-clone shows:

Randal> git-clone ~/Git/stonehenge.git Randal> remote: Generating pack... Randal> remote: Done counting 2610 objects. Randal> remote: Deltifying 2610 objects. Randal> 100% (2610/2610) done Randal> remote: Total 2610, written 2610 (delta 1244), reused 2610 (delta 1244) Randal> error: git-fetch-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack Randal> error: git-index-pack died of signal 11 Randal> fetch-pack from '/home/merlyn/Git/stonehenge.git/.git' failed.

Randal> What do you want me to try to help diagnose this?
And even more info:
    $ git-repack -a -d
    Generating pack...
    Done counting 2610 objects.
    Deltifying 2610 objects.
     100% (2610/2610) done
    Writing 2610 objects.
     100% (2610/2610) done
    Total 2610, written 2610 (delta 1244), reused 2610 (delta 1244)
    Pack pack-3cd61a256bd8736b13b0356aafff016260c22b80 created.
    $ git-repack -a -d -f
    Generating pack...
    Done counting 2610 objects.
    Deltifying 2610 objects.
    Segmentation fault 
Oops!  That's not good.
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