Re: Problem with pack

Earlier you said that the mothership has 1.4.2, and the note has
1.4.0.  The sequence of events as I understand are:

	- repack -a -d on the mothership with 1.4.2; no problems
          observed.

        - transfer the results to note; this was done behind git so
          no problems observed.

        - tried to repack on note with 1.4.0; got "failed to
          read delta-pack base object" error.
  

Yes... only before that I had a few more iterations PC<->notebook always
syncing with unison.

Can you make the pack/idx available to the public for
postmortem?
  

Yes... I can make them available... the pack/idx actually do not contain
anything extremely confidential (just a bunch of LaTeX files).
Only, being that there is conference data and stuff by people who
professionally organize conferences, I'd prefer to make it available
directly to some specific people that I can trust not re-distributing it
rather than putting it in the general public.

Also I wonder if the pack can be read by 1.4.2.
  

No it cannot.

Earlier you said "unpack-objects <$that-pack.pack" fails with
"error code -3 in inflate..."  What exact error do you get?
I am guessing that it is get_data() which says:

	"inflate returned %d\n"
  

This is right...

Just a question...
Might the problem have come out of a scenario like the following...

1) I use unison to sync my documents (rather than using the git tools...
silly me!)
2) I get things wrong in controlling unison (without realizing that I
do) and the result is that I lose some blobs.
3) I repack an unclean tree (missing some objects)

Can this be the case?

Thanks

Sergio