Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151706150.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7p8omdh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I hadn't realised it was quite a serious as these responses
> > are making it sound.  I'll gather more precise data upon my
> > return home.
> > ...
> > Clearly it is version-specific.  I'll do a bit of bisection
> > later and see if I can nail the problem down.
> 
> Thanks --- very much appreciated.  When it comes to
> inter-repository object transfer, we take compatibility very
> seriously.

I really doubt it is a compatibility problem. The provided error message may only result from the fact that patch_delta() has returned NULL.

And since patch-delta is really simple, it doesn't have many reasons for returning NULL: either the object store on either the remote or local side is corrupted in which case a git-fsck-objects --full should catch that, or the system ran out of memory.