fatal: serious inflate inconsistency

	From: 	  kranki@mac.com
	Subject: 	fatal: serious inflate inconsistency
	Date: 	November 8, 2007 10:56:02 PM EST
	To: 	  majordomo@vger.kernel.org

Hi, list.

Sorry, but I am not that familiar with git's internal workings, but here is a failure that I can consistently create. I am running MacOSX 10.4.10 with git compiled from source. Here is the problem output that I am receiving:

apple07:~/rmwHtmlOld bob$ git version git version 1.5.3.5 apple07:~/rmwHtmlOld bob$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ apple07:~/rmwHtmlOld bob$ git add . apple07:~/rmwHtmlOld bob$ git commit --all Created initial commit 49b4183: Initial commit 10993 files changed, 3615639 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100755 bk.sh . . . create mode 100755 ter/webalizer/webalizer.hist apple07:~/rmwHtmlOld bob$ cd .. apple07:~ bob$ mkdir rmwHtml.git apple07:~ bob$ cd rmwHtml.git/ apple07:~/rmwHtml.git bob$ git --bare init --share usage: git-init [-q | --quiet] [--template=<template-directory>] [-- shared] apple07:~/rmwHtml.git bob$ git --bare init --shared Initialized empty shared Git repository in /Users/bob/rmwHtml.git/ apple07:~/rmwHtml.git bob$ git --bare fetch ../rmwHtmlOld master:master warning: no common commits remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 11402 objects. remote: Deltifying 11402 objects... remote: 100% (11402/11402) done Indexing 11402 objects... 100% (11402/11402) done Resolving 3356 deltas... fatal: serious inflate inconsistency remote: Total 11402 (delta 3356), reused 0 (delta 0) fatal: index-pack died with error code 128 fatal: Fetch failure: ../rmwHtmlOld apple07:~/rmwHtml.git bob$

The ... represent about 11,000 files that I did not feel needed to be included. The total directory being put in the repository is about 4gig.

There are two files that are about 1.0gig each. I had them as one which in MacOSX 10.4.10 showed as 1.88gig and think that this may be the problem, but don't know why since my searches show that git should handle files up to 2gig. If I am wrong and there is a lesser limit, then I apologize.

I have this directory, rmwHtmlOld, saved as a tarball and can recreate the above as needed.

I apologize if I am doing something wrong that I am not aware of. I use git for several different projects and have no problem with them. I would appreciate any help that you can provide. Thank you for your time.

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, bob wrote:

A similar problem (if not the same problem) has been reported on MacOSX in the past. The conclusion was that either the gcc version or zlib version on MacOSX was bad and updating them fixed it. I don't remember the details now but you should be able to find them in the mail archive (or maybe someone else remembers).

Nicolas

Thank you, Nicolas. I will look into installing a new zlib.

I moved the two large files into their own repository and then both repositories worked correctly. So, it must be something related to the size, hopefully, in zlib.

Again, thanks for the reponse.

On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: