Re: mysterious error message

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Tom Sgouros wrote:

I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':

  tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
  updating 'refs/heads/master'
    from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
    to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
   Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 10 objects.
  Deltifying 10 objects...
  error: pack-objects died with strange error
  unpack eof before pack header was fully read
  ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
  error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
  tomfool@toms-box:hpl$

I haven't been able to interpret this message, and haven't found it in
the documentation, and google has let me down, too.  Can anyone tell me
what is causing it?

I think it's a problem on the pushing side.  Maybe out of disk space (in
$GIT_DIR or $TMP_DIR)?  Does git repack work?

HTH
Uwe