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Re: unpacker error on push

From
Gavin Kistner <gkistner@nvidia.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2010, 04:41 UTC
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On Jun 16, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> Slim2:bugbot3 phrogz$ git push
>> Counting objects: 70, done.
>> Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (31/31), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (40/40), 26.91 KiB, done.
>> Total 40 (delta 11), reused 37 (delta 8)
>> error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
>> To git://10.20.16.110/bugbot3.git
>> ! [remote rejected] planning -> planning (n/a (unpacker error))
>> error: failed to push some refs to 'git://10.20.16.110/bugbot3.git'
> 
> Could you try doing "git config receive.unpackLimit 1" on the _remote_ 
> machine in the receiving repository?
> 
> Note this is not a proper fix but rather an attempt to isolate the 
> issue.  Please make a backup of the entire repository both on the local 
> and the remote machine if you can, so the failure can be reproduced 
> again after restoring them to the current state in case this would "fix" 
> the issue.
Sorry, I'd love to help but I zipped up the repo (sans .git or a few other directories), nuked it, and re-cloned. That fixed the issue.

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