Re: [regression] Newer gits cannot clone any remote repos

Douglas Mencken wrote:

*Any* git clone fails with:

fatal: premature end of pack file, 106 bytes missing
fatal: index-pack failed

At first, I tried 1.8.0, and it failed. Then I tried to build 1.7.10.5
then, and it worked. Then I tried 1.7.12.2, but it fails the same way
as 1.8.0.
So I decided to git bisect.

b8a2486f1524947f232f657e9f2ebf44e3e7a243 is the first bad commit
``index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving''

This looks like the same problem I had on cygwin, which lead to
commit c0f86547c ("index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin", 26-06-2012).

I didn't notice which platform you are on, but maybe you also have a
thread-unsafe pread()? Could you try re-building git with the
NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD build variable set?

HTH.

ATB,
Ramsay Jones