Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

I'll build with ElectricFence, and see if it says anything for me. It 
passes all the tests, but fetching the kernel is almost certainly going to 
do things that we don't test for..

It passes smaller clones fine with ElectricFence (and bigger ones fail 
because EF uses *so* much memory for its checking that you cannot actually 
complete them), so I don't think this is a git bug. Sounds like either the 
hw problems are real, or there is some zlib (or other library) issue..

		Linus