Re: mysterious error message

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

tom sgouros <tomfool@as220.org> 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
  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.