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From: Ephrim Khong <dr.khong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug] git gc with alternates tries accessing non-existing directory
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:55:12 +0100
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On 18.03.2015 10:42, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:11:48AM +0100, Ephrim Khong wrote:
>
>> I have a non-bare repository /home/a set up with an alternate to the bare
>> repository /b. Running  git gc  on /home/a produces below's error
>> [...]
>>> git --version
>> git version 2.3.0
>
> Try v2.3.2. It has b0a4264 (sha1_file: fix iterating loose alternate
> objects, 2015-02-08), which is almost certainly the problem.

Indeed, the message is gone in v2.3.3. Thanks!

- Eph