Re: fatal: cannot store pack file (git 1.6.0.2 + sshfs)

From: Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2008, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <d77df1110809241057rb1d7361pf76a4cde8834b1df@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080924163400.GU3669@spearce.org>

Resend with reply to all:

When I mount with sshfs, I have to give the option

sshfs -o workaround=rename ...

to make things work normally.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair.tocancipa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm getting the following when running git on a partition mounted with
>> sshfs:
>>
>> $ git pull
> ...
>> error: unable to write sha1 filename .git/objects/pack/pack-dc5c3614e795918f457a2f98a58f10134ebf246b.pack: Operation not permitted
>> fatal: cannot store pack file
>> fatal: index-pack failed
>>
>> git pull worked fine in the same repository yesterday (new files where
>> committed in the meantime).
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a problem in git or in sshfs (or somewhere
>> else).
>
> Its the size of the fetch.  The day before you probably had a smaller
> number of objects downloaded (<100) so Git used unpack-objects
> instead of index-pack.  Yesterday it was a larger download (>100),
> so it used index-pack.
>
> In 1.6.0.2 index-pack writes a temporary file to .git/objects but
> later tries to rename it into .git/objects/pack.  That renaming
> must not be working on sshfs.
>
> Latest "master" has a change from Pasky (8b4eb6b6 "Do not perform
> cross-directory renames") that should fix this issue.  Or just
> don't use sshfs.  Or teach sshfs to rename across directories.
>
> --
> Shawn.
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