Re: Am I doing something wrong?

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> writes:

> maybe the Linux kernel repository needs the same treatment.  i'm getting 
> the "all zeros" commit error message when trying to pull from it.

Indeed.

Linus, sorry about bothering you, but could you do the same
band-aid for now and also apply the attached to your
server-info.c, please?

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> As a band-aid, I just ran this command at the server that public
>> ones mirror from:
>>
>> 	$ echo >>objects/info/packs
>>

GIT 1.0.0a needs to follow soonish X-<.

-- >8 --
[PATCH] objects/info/packs: work around bug in http-fetch.c::fetch_indices()

The code to fetch pack index files in deployed clients have a
bug that causes it to ignore the pack file on the last line of
objects/info/packs file, so append an empty line to work it
around.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

---

 server-info.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

21b1aced83195af50fd8bc9a88e7734c8ee77c0e
diff --git a/server-info.c b/server-info.c
index df19e49..6089765 100644
--- a/server-info.c
+++ b/server-info.c
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ static void write_pack_info_file(FILE *f
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < num_pack; i++)
 		fprintf(fp, "P %s\n", info[i]->p->pack_name + objdirlen + 6);
+	fputc('\n', fp);
 }
 
 static int update_info_packs(int force)
-- 
1.0.0