Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128

Horst H. von Brand· Dec 14, 2006, 23:25 UTC · lore

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is with my big "every linux patch" repository that I talked about in 
> another thread.  To bring you up to speed:

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> This gave me the following output:
> 
> $ git fetch
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 189146 objects.
> remote: Result has 186566 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 186566 objects.
> remote:  100% (186566/186566) done
> Unpacking 186566 objects
> fatal: failed to apply delta
> fatal: unpack-objects died with error code 128
> Fetch failure: /home/andyp/projects/temp/.git

Happened to me yesterday or so pulling the vanilla kernel (big push shortly before 2.6.20-rc1). Trying again somewhat later went through flawlessly. Might have been git running out of memory.

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Nicolas Pitre· Dec 15, 2006, 02:31 UTC · re: Horst H. von Brand · lore

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

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> > Unpacking 186566 objects
> > fatal: failed to apply delta
> > fatal: unpack-objects died with error code 128
> > Fetch failure: /home/andyp/projects/temp/.git
> 
> Happened to me yesterday or so pulling the vanilla kernel (big push shortly
> before 2.6.20-rc1). Trying again somewhat later went through flawlessly.
> Might have been git running out of memory.

This is a very possible cause, especially if both processes (pack-objects and unpack-objects) are running at the same time on the same machine.