Re: [BUG?] Fail to pull from kernel.org: pack has bad object

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:

I am getting it, too, but I remembered to save my repo. :) The 'next'
branch is broken, but master works fine. The bisect points to

  commit 9441b61dc5c3f1f984114ec8bd470dc20c55dfe0
  Author: Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref]
  Date:   Fri Oct 17 15:57:57 2008 -0400

      index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code

Dammit... I'm growing a habit of breaking things lately.

but I don't have time to look further right now (there is a small child
who apparently thinks coloring with crayons is more interesting than
bisecting bugs).

I can make my broken repo available if need be (though given the number
of us seeing the problem, I doubt it is hard to reproduce).

It certainly is... to me at least.

When index-pack dies like that, a temporary (and incomplete) pack file 
is left in .git/objects/pack/ with tmp in the file name.  I'd need only 
that to reproduce the issue.


Nicolas