# git fatal error on fetching

1 messages from 2016-08-05 to 2016-08-05. Participants: OmegaPhil.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43012

## OmegaPhil, 2016-08-05 19:10

Subject: git fatal error on fetching
Message-ID: <3c9671f0-782f-c5cb-08ce-a0f428994fb4@startmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3c9671f0-782f-c5cb-08ce-a0f428994fb4%40startmail.com

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Debian Testing with v4.5.5-1 kernel, git v2.8.1.

I seem to have a broken git setup somehow on this machine - I'm
currently testing the ability to fetch PRs from Github following [0],
e.g. testing with a PR on dattobd[1]:

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git clone https://github.com/datto/dattobd.git
cd dattobd
git fetch origin pull/41/head:pull_41
git checkout pull_41

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This works fine in a VM, but on my main machine, the fetch fails:

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fatal: failed to read object 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000:
Bad file descriptor

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I moved my local config out of the way ('~/.gitconfig'), but nothing
changed. Any ideas for how to debug this?

Thanks for any help.


0: https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247#gistcomment-1625076
1: https://github.com/datto/dattobd/pull/41


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