Re: non-monotonic index when using http://?

Martin Waitz [off-list ref] writes:

hoi :)

At work I'm getting the following error message, any ideas?

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git --version

git version 1.4.2.rc4.g242a

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git pull upstream

Fetching refs/heads/master from http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git using http
error: non-monotonic index
walk 43134fcb350fb70d26634be163db1f71c14db19f
walk 55c3eb434ab6d489c632263239be15a1054df7f2
Getting alternates list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
Getting pack list for http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
error: non-monotonic index

The "non monotonic index" check is to make sure pack .idx file
is sane, and it appears that you are getting the error before
you fetch new pack from the server, which means one of your
local packs is bad.

I just cloned from the kernel.org archive over http (I usually
don't, but your report was alarming enough) and the packfile I
have there do not seem to have the problem.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:20:38AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

The "non monotonic index" check is to make sure pack .idx file
is sane, and it appears that you are getting the error before
you fetch new pack from the server, which means one of your
local packs is bad.

You are right, the local archive is corrupted, it works with
a fresh clone.

For some reason, I have a
.git/objects/pack/pack-793a9e93286d6c656941977d2e5b49e28566edcd.idx
without the corresponding .pack file.

Has anybody seen something like this before?


Should GIT bail out earlier when it sees this non-monotonic-index
corruption?
At least, it should not SEGV later...

-- 
Martin Waitz