Re: git problem: pack has bad object at offset 77100841: inflate returned -3

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

srinivas naga vutukuri [off-list ref] wrote:

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remote: Counting objects: 879862, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (156686/156686), done.
fatal: pack has bad object at offset 77100841: inflate returned -3
fatal: index-pack failed

while doing "git clone" of linux kernel of latest 2.6.27-rc2.
But am able to do the latest stable successfully.

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I am using cygwin, git 1.5.6.4

Where are you cloning from?

This is an indication that the data sent to your system from the
remote side is corrupt.  Possibly a bad network link?

Remote side corruption should have been detected by the remote
server as it was writing the data out.  The message above however
came from your client, so the server seems to be OK.

Well, not exactly.  The server (git pack-objects) does skip some data 
integrity validation that the client (git index-pack) is doing anyway in 
order to cut cycles on the server machine.


Nicolas