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

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:26:55AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:

> > Currently I get the following error when trying to pull from git.git at 
> > kernel.org:
> > 
> > $ git pull
> > remote: Counting objects: 279, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done.
> > remote: Total 177 (delta 136), reused 135 (delta 99)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (177/177), 66.59 KiB | 59 KiB/s, done.
> > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 53487: failed to apply delta
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> I just had the same, panicked, then compiled 'maint' and the fetch
> worked.  Unfortunately I wasn't awake enough to make a copy of the
> repo.  Maybe you can make one, then use it to bisect the problem
> between maint and next...

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 <nico@cam.org>
  Date:   Fri Oct 17 15:57:57 2008 -0400

      index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code

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).

-Peff