Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > On 2/11/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > > Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > remote: Total 63, written 63 (delta 0), reused 63 (delta 0)
> > > > 100% (63/63) done
> > > > fatal: pack: not a valid SHA1
> > > > New branch: 0953670fbcb75e26fb93340bddae934e85618f2e
> > >
> > > What version of git is this?  That looks like we're assuming the word
> > > pack was an object, but I'm not sure why we would do such a thing...
>
> This "pack" comes from pack-index when providing the name of the pack.
> It is either "pack" or "keep" and specifies the name of the .keep file
> to remove in the later case.
> This is caught by git-fetch.sh with some code identified with a comment
> that reads: "# special line coming from index-pack with the pack name"
>
> > jonsmirl@jonsmirl:/usr/local/bin$ git --version
> > git version 1.5.0.rc2.g53551-dirty
>
> You must have conflicting vintage of GIT installations on your machine
> with missing support for the "pack" and "keep" stuff described above.