Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

> Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> > Yes: 1.4.x worked fine.  This was actually my attempt to re-do the 1.4
> > clone I had laying around, as I wanted my backup done with 1.5.  I
> > still have the 1.4 cloned repo, just moved it out of the way...
> 
> OK, is ~/devel/project fully packed?  If it isn't can you repack
> it (or a clone of it) so that it is?
> 
> Then take the packfile and try to feed it right into index-pack:
> 
> 	mkdir /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
> 	cd /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
> 	git --bare init
> 	git --bare index-pack --stdin --fix-thin \
> 	  <~/devel/project/.git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack
> 
> Now while that is running it should be creating pack_XXXXXX as a
> temporary file (where XXXXXX is replaced with the temp string).
> Its this file that we are seeing magically truncate to 0 in the
> middle of running.
> 
> But I fail to see anything in index-pack that would cause this,
> and its the only program that knows about this file at this stage
> of the clone.