Re: Git woes

Hi git list,

Alex Riesen asked me to forward this to this list.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Alex Riesen[off-list ref] wrote:

On Aug 27, 7:42 am, Nico Weber [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Trying to pull:

thakis-macbookpro:~/src/chrome-git/src thakis$ git pull
remote: Counting objects: 1859, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1267/1267), done.
remote: Total 1393 (delta 1087), reused 195 (delta 107)
Receiving objects: 100% (1393/1393), 2.57 MiB | 781 KiB/s, done.
fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
fatal: index-pack failed

You're on MacOSX, right? What version of git are you running?
Where do you pull from? (So it can be reproduced)

If you can provide this information, then maybe send it to the
Git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org, no subscription required),
or at least back to me? Maybe you can strace (is it possible
on MacOSX?) the "git pull" (because pread never returns
ENOENT) and attach the trace as well?

Sorry for asking you off-list, but I noticed your problem
really accidentally (by browsing the list's archives), and
not sure I am prepared to deal with the list's traffic.

Yes, I'm on OS X 10.5.8.

I'm pulling from git://git.chromium.org/chromium.git. This worked fine
for the last month or so, I had the problem for the first time
yesterday evening.

$ git --version
git version 1.6.0.2

Sadly, I fixed the problem accidentally by running something like

  rm -rf .git/svn/
  git svn fetch; git merge trunk
  git merge refs/remotes/origin/trunk
  git checkout -f HEAD
  git pull

(if that looks like I don't know what I'm doing, you're right)

If it happens again, I'll post a dtrace to this list.

Nico

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 23:06, Nico Weber[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi git list,

Alex Riesen asked me to forward this to this list.

Thank you! It is appreciated.

If it happens again, I'll post a dtrace to this list.

Yes, this would be very useful.