Re: git 1.5.1-rc1 doesn't like empty files

Pavel Roskin [off-list ref] writes:

Hello!

I don't know where this problem appeared, but it present in the current
git (1.5.1-rc1).  Empty files become invalid objects in the repository:

$ touch file 
$ git-init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
$ git-add file
$ git-commit -m "first commit"
Created initial commit 16a476808d3cb0a4758997ba58193a9dcfad0fd8
error: garbage at end of loose object
'e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391'

If the error message above is linewrapped by e-mail, I think it
is coming from here:

    static void *unpack_sha1_rest(z_stream *stream, void *buffer,...
    {
    ...
            if (bytes < size) {
                    stream->next_out = buf + bytes;
                    stream->avail_out = size - bytes;
                    while (status == Z_OK)
                            status = inflate(stream, Z_FINISH);
            }
            buf[size] = 0;
            if ((status == Z_OK || status == Z_STREAM_END) && !stream->avail_in) {
                    inflateEnd(stream);
                    return buf;
            }

            if (status < 0)
                    error("corrupt loose object '%s'", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
            else if (stream->avail_in)
                    error("garbage at end of loose object '%s'",
                          sha1_to_hex(sha1));
            free(buf);
            return NULL;
    }

Can you check what the value of the status is at that point?