Re: git 1.5.1-rc1 doesn't like empty files

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mar 20, 2007, 05:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703192237100.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <1174367312.3143.75.camel@dv>

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> 
> .git/objects/e6/9de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 is the same 9
> bytes:  30 78 9c 03 00 00 00 00 01

Ahh.. You have

	[core]
		legacyheaders = false

don't you? If you didn't, you should see a 15-byte object, not a 9-byte one.

And yes, I can reproduce this with that "core.legacyheaders=false" setting. It seems that config option is simply broken, and we never noticed, because almost nobody uses it.

Alexander - do you happen to have that "legacyheaders" setting too? Maybe that explains your pack corruption?

		Linus