From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:54:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git 1.5.1-rc1 doesn't like empty files
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703192148430.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <1174361424.3143.42.camel@dv>



On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> I don't know where this problem appeared, but it present in the current
> git (1.5.1-rc1).  Empty files become invalid objects in the repository:

Hmm.. Not for me. Can you bisect when it started happening?

> This is Linux, Fedora Development, i386.

FC6, tested both i386 and x86-64.

I wonder if this is a zlib issue. Although I seem to have libz-1.2.3 on 
both machines, and that should be the most recent version. I don't see 
Fedora development having anything else..

		Linus