Re: [BUG] t9801 and t9803 broken on next

> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> On 13 May 2016, at 18:37, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you saying that "git p4" itself breaks unless fast-import always
>>> writes a new (tiny) packfile?  That sounds quite broken, and setting
>>> unpacklimit to 0 does not sound like a sensible "fix".  Of course,
>>> if the test script is somehow looking at the number of packs or
>>> loose objects and declaring a failure, even when the resulting
>>> history in p4 and git are correct, then that is a different issue,
>>> and forcing to explode a tiny pack is a reasonable workaround.  I
>>> couldn't quite tell which the case is.
>>>
>>> Puzzled.  Please help.
>>
>> t9801 "import depot, branch detection" is the first test that fails
>> with a fast import error:
>> https://github.com/git/git/blob/78b384c29366e199741393e56030a8384110760d/t/t9801-git-p4-branch.sh#L110
>>
>> fast-import crash report:
>>     fast-import process: 77079
>>     parent process     : 77077
>>     at 2016-05-14 07:48:40 +0000
>>
>> fatal: offset beyond end of packfile (truncated pack?)
>
> Hmm, does that suggest Eric's "explode them into loose instead of
> keeping a small pack" insufficient?  It sounds like that somebody
> wanted to read some data back from its packfile without knowing that
> the updated code may make it available in a loose object form, which
> would mean that somebody needs to be told about what is going on,
> namely, these objects are not in a half-written pack but are found
> as loose objects.
>
>> The problem seems to be related to the git-p4 branch import.
>> I don't have time this weekend to look further into it, but
>> I will try next week.