From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:02:27 -0700 Message-ID: <7vfw7mxlto.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <5638dec6e156f83385a3baa01cf9ac4d@localhost> <20120702215736.GA5790@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20120703032345.GA7143@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20120703051426.GA12965@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vvcgizesm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v4no2zbd9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120817014526.GA447@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Lars Winterfeld , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy , Andreas Schwab , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 17 05:02:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T2Cpa-0000z2-8n for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:02:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030540Ab2HQDCb (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:31 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:49578 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964812Ab2HQDCa (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743729C5D; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:29 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=e61IkOBIwgA2ambaa5ETu8YfRk8=; b=YGr/22 c8zuO9FKQlOzM16NcsDe5oksUs6GxKpVMd1gkwWwMZ6s5qW//lOcKNZfUjtoL9qV +fIrwfE5W535TWhbMhWNHHSEAJvRljLXwkxiSNIevf91GUQBWcL2Zjs8tN9RN+6s n32XGOlP+Pipcqemxd/FoQkl8Ddab16kunnZI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=YAfT8XgDH6tPScXiFiLrGK9r7v/4ReGF I8hvQMEAUyL3ZjyegatF86Hb5jXoZuxIWOwHOrojWNdGlsbzgpwJQoF5Csq5Gu+6 yEeOkUrTN5vpiLhXJLEsrAHsJnk7HKX6f4ZP4yBbnDJqiVnRSn0uEyumBsn1sfDS vN2iplrS8sI= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AB69C5C; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C14C39C5B; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:02:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20120817014526.GA447@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:45:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FAD56D8E-E817-11E1-B883-01B42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:05:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Lars Winterfeld writes: >> >> >> Hrm, has this ever been resolved? >> > >> > Thank you for asking. >> > My local git version is 1.7.5.4, the server version that I actually >> > ended up pushing the files to was however still some 1.6.x. >> > So it was a false alarm. Sorry about that. >> >> Not really. Pushing or fetching by a new version of Git against old >> version of Git *should* work; otherwise it is a bug. > > Yes, but there may be old bugs in the server version that have since > been fixed. For example, the bug fixed by 838cd346 might be the cause of > this (that fix went into 1.6.0.3). Yeah, Lars said 1.6.x above, but in the response it turns out the version used is 1.6.0.2, so lack of that commit is a very likely reason. Thanks.