From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:59:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Fail to pull from kernel.org: pack has bad object
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810200955250.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081020121533.GA2177@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> I am getting it, too, but I remembered to save my repo. :) The 'next'
> branch is broken, but master works fine. The bisect points to
> 
>   commit 9441b61dc5c3f1f984114ec8bd470dc20c55dfe0
>   Author: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
>   Date:   Fri Oct 17 15:57:57 2008 -0400
> 
>       index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code

Dammit... I'm growing a habit of breaking things lately.

> but I don't have time to look further right now (there is a small child
> who apparently thinks coloring with crayons is more interesting than
> bisecting bugs).
> 
> I can make my broken repo available if need be (though given the number
> of us seeing the problem, I doubt it is hard to reproduce).

It certainly is... to me at least.

When index-pack dies like that, a temporary (and incomplete) pack file 
is left in .git/objects/pack/ with tmp in the file name.  I'd need only 
that to reproduce the issue.


Nicolas