From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:13:35 GMT Subject: Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vy7p8omdh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andy Parkins 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.