Re: git-fetch fails with error code 128

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is with my big "every linux patch" repository that I talked about in 
> another thread.  To bring you up to speed:
> 
>  1. Made repository
>  2. Made a zip of the .git directory
>  3. Copied the zip elsewhere
>  4. Extracted it into a temporary directory
>  5. Went to an out-of-date version of this repository
>  6. Used git-fetch to update it.
> 
> This gave me the following output:
> 
> $ git fetch
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 189146 objects.
> remote: Result has 186566 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 186566 objects.
> remote:  100% (186566/186566) done
> Unpacking 186566 objects
> fatal: failed to apply delta
> fatal: unpack-objects died with error code 128
> Fetch failure: /home/andyp/projects/temp/.git
> 
> What does that mean?  I ran fsck --full on the source repository, but it's 
> made no difference.

Could you please instrument patch-delta.c to determine which of the
"return NULL" is executed?