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Re: cannot pread pack

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 4, 2011, 13:55 UTC
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 02:31, richard parkins <p1rpp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> I'm running under SUSE 11.1 Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux using git version 1.6.0.2, which is the latest built release for SUSE 11.1.

Upgrade Git. The pread() bug was fixed post 1.6.0.2, I don't remember what version, but I would suggest moving to one of the later 1.7.x releases.

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Shawn.
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