# Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-08-11 19:40:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7689217
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/08/7689217/t.md

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Nicolas Pitre [ref] writes:

> I really doubt it is a compatibility problem.  The provided error 
> message may only result from the fact that patch_delta() has returned 
> NULL.
>
> And since patch-delta is really simple, it doesn't have many reasons for 
> returning NULL: either the object store on either the remote or local 
> side is corrupted in which case a git-fsck-objects --full should catch 
> that, or the system ran out of memory.

Hmmmm.  True and sad.  Sad because I do not offhand think of
places to trim the memory usage.
```