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From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with Linus's git repository?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:41:48 -0700
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, walt wrote:
> >
> > For two days I've been unable to pull from Linus's kernel
> > git repository.  The reason seems to be that HEAD is a
> > symlink to refs/heads/master, which appears to be missing.
>
> It's not missing, it's packed. I tend to re-pack after I make a release,
> and this time I did it after -rc6...

Sometime overnight this problem disappeared.  I haven't actually
tested this idea, but I have a hunch that your commit yesterday
of "Fix zero-object version-2 packs" is the reason.

If the problem recurs I'll follow up on it.

Thanks.