From: PJ Hyett <pjhyett@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:34:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Bad objects error since upgrading GitHub servers to 1.6.1
Message-ID: <bab6a2ab0901271634x7201130bx4a565bd8bea6967b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1vuo1f6d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

> As we do not know what version github used to run (or for that matter what
> custom code it adds to 1.6.1), I guessed that the previous one was 1.6.0.6
> and did some comparison.  The client side pack_object() learned to take
> alternates on the server side into account to avoid pushing objects that
> the target repository has through its alternates, so it is not totally
> unexpected the client side changes its behaviour depending on what the
> server does.

The only custom code we've written was a patch to git-daemon to map
pjhyett/github.git to a sharded location (eg.
/repositories/1/1e/df/a0/pjhyett/github.git) instead of the default.

The new alternates code in 1.6.1 sounds like that could be the issue.

-PJ