From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:41:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706270636140.7038@x2.ybpnyarg>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706260935440.8675@woody.linux-foundation.org>



On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.