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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cannot pread pack
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:08:15 -0500
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Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Upgrade Git. The pread() bug was fixed post 1.6.0.2, I don't remember
> what version, but I would suggest moving to one of the later 1.7.x
> releases.

Yep.  Probably v1.6.0.3~23 (fix pread()'s short read in index-pack,
2008-10-09).  The maint-1.6.0 branch has many other nice fixes, in
case you need to avoid version numbers starting with "1.7" or "1.6.6"
for whatever reason.