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Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?

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Wwalt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2007, 13:41 UTC
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
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> > For two days I've been unable to pull from Linus's kernel
> > git repository.  The reason seems to be that HEAD is a
> > symlink to refs/heads/master, which appears to be missing.
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> It's not missing, it's packed. I tend to re-pack after I make a release,
> and this time I did it after -rc6...

Sometime overnight this problem disappeared. I haven't actually tested this idea, but I have a hunch that your commit yesterday of "Fix zero-object version-2 packs" is the reason.

If the problem recurs I'll follow up on it.
Thanks.
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  1. waltJun 26, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 26, 2007
  3. waltJun 27, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJun 27, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2007
  6. waltJun 28, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 28, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2007
  9. waltJun 29, 2007
  10. Andreas EricssonJun 29, 2007

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