Re: mysterious error message

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:

quoted

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 got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?

Almost.

I think its that there are submodules in the local side and they are
being pushed to the remote peer, but the git binary on the client
that is being used to execute git-push doesn't know about submodules.

"error: pack-objects died with strange error":

This was pack-objects aborting when it saw a subtree entry and it
couldn't trace down that path in order to include it into the pack.

"unpack eof before pack header was fully read":

This is the server side aborting because its gotten the command
set from the git-push client, but pack-objects never even got to
create the pack header, since it couldn't generate the full list
of objects it needed to include.

Tom, try upgrading to a Git implementation on the client.  It seems
to me that this repository must have been moved here by means outside
of Git (NFS mount?), or the client got downgraded (wrong $PATH?)

-- 
Shawn.