From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tom sgouros Subject: Re: mysterious error message Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:35 -0400 Message-ID: <31976.1222615115@as220.org> References: <20593.1222378418@as220.org> <30988.1222439568@as220.org> <20080926143726.GZ3669@spearce.org> Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 28 17:19:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kjy3r-00029G-EV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:19:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752008AbYI1PSl (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751949AbYI1PSl (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:41 -0400 Received: from as220.org ([198.7.230.15]:42771 "EHLO ironzilla.as220.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751786AbYI1PSk (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:40 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ironzilla.as220.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4427EAAB09; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at as220.org Received: from ironzilla.as220.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (as220.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id RkqPxWrJlYe7; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from as220.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ironzilla.as220.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295DFAAB02; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:18:35 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <20080926143726.GZ3669@spearce.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Shawn O. Pearce" message dated "Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:37:26 -0700." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I have upgraded and the problem has disappeared. Many thanks for the advice. -tom Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > tom sgouros wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote: > > > > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push': > > > > > > > > tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push > > > > updating 'refs/heads/master' > > > > from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f > > > > to 5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3 > > > > Also local refs/remotes/origin/master > > > > Generating pack... > > > > Done counting 10 objects. > > > > Deltifying 10 objects... > > > > error: pack-objects died with strange error > > > > unpack eof before pack header was fully read > > > > ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error) > > > > error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git' > > > > tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ > > > > > > I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a > > > server which had submodule-ignorant git installed. Maybe it's that? > > > > I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version > > 1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server. I installed > > git via the fink package manager. Could there be some other > > incompatibility? > > This change came after 1.5.3.6 and I think its what you are > tripping over: > > commit 481f0ee60eef2c34b891e5d04b7e6e5a955eedf4 > Author: Linus Torvalds > Date: Sun Nov 11 23:35:23 2007 +0000 > > Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules > > rev-list aborting because it cannot mark a submodule commit > as uninteresting should cause pack-objects to abort too since > the list of objects wasn't completely produced. > > That fix is in 1.5.3.7 or later. > > -- > Shawn. > -- ------------------------ tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net