From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Pyeron" Subject: FW: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:31:18 -0500 Organization: PD Inc Message-ID: <64C98FC352BD45EC9632202946A081E1@black> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 04 00:31:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwJOF-0003qb-QB for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:31:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751904AbaLCXbU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:31:20 -0500 Received: from mail.pdinc.us ([67.90.184.27]:60357 "EHLO mail.pdinc.us" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbaLCXbT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:31:19 -0500 Received: from black (five-58.pdinc.us [192.168.5.58]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.pdinc.us (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id sB3NVI5i026624 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:31:18 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AdAPTnipQMftO49bTwmCLkDwG7UbFAAAn1Pg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4913 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I remember hitting this a while ago, but just gave up. It seems to be a problem for others too. Any ideas on how to debug this so it can be patched? -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lindbergh Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 18:07 To: cygwin Subject: Re: [cygwin] Cygwin's git says "error: failed to read delta-pack base object" On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > [copy off list, because the sourceware system admins throws temper tantrums] >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave L >> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 15:30 >> >> ...but the git from github.com works fine. >> >> I installed Cygwin's version of git, and get this: >> >> $ git clone https://github.com/nerdfever/pic32mx-bmf >> Cloning into 'pic32mx-bmf'... >> remote: Counting objects: 12, done. >> remote: Total 12 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> error: failed to read delta-pack base object >> 300bdeb2fd209d24afb865584da10b78aa8fefc4 >> fatal: unpack-objects failed > > What file system are you on? Local NTFS or remote? Aha - you're right. It works fine on a local NTFS volume. I get the error when I do it on Z:, which is mapped to a network drive (on another Windows box). Is there a workaround? Why does this happen? --Dave -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple