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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: Problem packing repository
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:30:17 +0200
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Larry Finger schrieb:
> For the past 2 weeks, every pull from the mainline kernel repository
> has included the following message about "Auto packing" that fails to
> complete.
> 
> git --version yields "git version 1.6.3.2.198.g6096d"
> 
> ================================================
> 
> Auto packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also
> run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.
> usage: git-pack-objects [{ -q | --progress | --all-progress }]
>         [--max-pack-size=N] [--local] [--incremental]
>         [--window=N] [--window-memory=N] [--depth=N]
>         [--no-reuse-delta] [--no-reuse-object] [--delta-base-offset]
>         [--threads=N] [--non-empty] [--revs [--unpacked | --all]*]
> [--reflog]
>         [--stdout | base-name] [--include-tag]
>         [--keep-unreachable | --unpack-unreachable]
>         [<ref-list | <object-list]
> error: failed to run repack

I'm pretty sure that you have inconsistent versions of git in your PATH.
You can use GIT_TRACE=2 to debug this. I think that you should get the
same error if you run 'git gc' manually.

-- Hannes