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Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 8, 2007, 19:06 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.0.98.0706081202580.4205@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'll build with ElectricFence, and see if it says anything for me. It 
> passes all the tests, but fetching the kernel is almost certainly going to 
> do things that we don't test for..

It passes smaller clones fine with ElectricFence (and bigger ones fail because EF uses *so* much memory for its checking that you cannot actually complete them), so I don't think this is a git bug. Sounds like either the hw problems are real, or there is some zlib (or other library) issue..

		Linus
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