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Re: mysterious error message

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 26, 2008, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0809261400400.13830@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
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<20593.1222378418@as220.org>
Hi,
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:
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> I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> 
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
>   updating 'refs/heads/master'
>     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
>     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
>    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
>   Generating pack...
>   Done counting 10 objects.
>   Deltifying 10 objects...
>   error: pack-objects died with strange error
>   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
>   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
>   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$

I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a server which had submodule-ignorant git installed. Maybe it's that?

Ciao, Dscho

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