Re: mysterious error message

I have upgraded and the problem has disappeared.  Many thanks for the
advice.

 -tom

Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

tom sgouros [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:

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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?

I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version
1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server.  I installed
git via the fink package manager.  Could there be some other
incompatibility? 

This change came after 1.5.3.6 and I think its what you are
tripping over:

  commit 481f0ee60eef2c34b891e5d04b7e6e5a955eedf4
  Author: Linus Torvalds [off-list ref]
  Date:   Sun Nov 11 23:35:23 2007 +0000

    Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules

rev-list aborting because it cannot mark a submodule commit
as uninteresting should cause pack-objects to abort too since
the list of objects wasn't completely produced.

That fix is in 1.5.3.7 or later.

-- 
Shawn.

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