Bill Lear, Wed, Nov 14, 2007 00:56:45 +0100:

On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 22:48:02 (+0100) Alex Riesen writes:

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I extend the part you quoted. The file is opened here:
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This is strange. The current git should not produce anything like
this (and does not, here). ...

You are absolutely correct.  My comrade ran this with 1.5.0.1 by
mistake.  He reran the strace with 1.5.3.5, and I have replaced
the tarball on my server:

    http://www.zopyra.com/~rael/git/git-trace.tar.bz2

Still looks like v1.5.0.1:

   write(2, "fatal: ", 7)                  = 7
   write(2, "cannot pread pack file: No such "..., 49) = 49

Well, I just grepped for the above string in git-1.5.3.5:

% grep 'cannot pread pack file' *.c
index-pack.c:                   die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno));

oh, you should be looking for usage.c, the function report (it is
called by default die handler). The old code used to fputs("fatal:"),
the new just vfprintf's everything, so the write should look like:

    write(2, "fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such "...