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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:36:24 -0600
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On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:34:18 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
>On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>> Well, I went ahead and did that.  Here are the results:
>> 
>> % git clone --bare ~/devel/project
>> [...]
>> Resolving 2210 deltas.
>> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success [obj[0].offset=39393; obj[1].offset=39602; n=305; obj->size=0; rdy=0; len=207]
>> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
>
>What's "n"? Is that the return value from pread? Or was that "rdy"?

Yes, n is the value from pread.

This is on Linux, BTW:

% uname -a

Linux bl.zopyra.com 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jul 7 18:22:55 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

>One thing to do (maybe you did already) is to just verify that what you're 
>cloning looks fine:
>
>	cd ~/devel/project
>	git fsck --full

Did that, went fine.


Bill