From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:31:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612142128430.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200612142325.kBENPF1u001043@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> > Unpacking 186566 objects
> > fatal: failed to apply delta
> > fatal: unpack-objects died with error code 128
> > Fetch failure: /home/andyp/projects/temp/.git
> 
> Happened to me yesterday or so pulling the vanilla kernel (big push shortly
> before 2.6.20-rc1). Trying again somewhat later went through flawlessly.
> Might have been git running out of memory.

This is a very possible cause, especially if both processes 
(pack-objects and unpack-objects) are running at the same time on the 
same machine.