Git clone error

Git clone error

[Denis Bueno]

Hi all,

I'm a new git user (actually a darcs convert) and am running into a weird
problem on a small and simple repository.  The error I see is:

    git[14] > git clone /Volumes/work/scripts/
    Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/scripts/.git/
    remote: Generating pack...
    Done counting 80 objects.
    remote: error: unable to unpack b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
header
    fatal: unable to get type of object b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6error:
git-upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
    fatal: git-upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption
on the remote side.
    remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote
side.
    fatal: early EOF
    fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
    fetch-pack from '/Volumes/work/scripts/.git' failed.

I have many git repos on my system (one for configuration files, one for
scripts, various school projects, etc.) and this is the only one that has
been problematic thus far.  As you can see I am trying to clone a local repo
-- there should be no network problems here.  As I said, the repo is small:

    scripts[19] > find . -type f | wc -l
    118

(which of course includes all of git's files.)

$ git --version
git version 1.5.2.4

$ uname -a
Darwin 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007;
root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

I have little experience with git, but if you need any more info, let me
know.  Any suggestion on what might be the problem, and how to fix it?

-Denis

Re: Git clone error

[Junio C Hamano]

"Denis Bueno" <denbuen@sandia.gov> writes:

> ...  The error I see is:
>
>     git[14] > git clone /Volumes/work/scripts/
>     Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/scripts/.git/
>     remote: Generating pack...
>     Done counting 80 objects.
>     remote: error: unable to unpack b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
> header
>     fatal: unable to get type of object b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6error:
> git-upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
>     fatal: git-upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption
> on the remote side.
>     remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote
> side.

First thing to check would be...

>     fatal: early EOF
>     fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
>     fetch-pack from '/Volumes/work/scripts/.git' failed.

        $ cd /Volumes/work/scripts
        $ git fsck --full

Re: Git clone error

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Denis Bueno wrote:
> 
> I'm a new git user (actually a darcs convert) and am running into a weird
> problem on a small and simple repository.  The error I see is:
> 
>     git[14] > git clone /Volumes/work/scripts/
>     Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/scripts/.git/
>     remote: Generating pack...
>     Done counting 80 objects.
>     remote: error: unable to unpack b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 header
>     fatal: unable to get type of object b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6error: git-upload-pack: git-pack-objects died with error.
>     fatal: git-upload-pack: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
>     remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side.
>     fatal: early EOF
>     fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
>     fetch-pack from '/Volumes/work/scripts/.git' failed.

Well, it says so, but the most likely issue really is that there is 
"corruption on the remote side".

Please do

	cd /Volumes/work/scripts
	git fsck --full

which I would guess will almost certainly talk about some kind of problems 
with that object "b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429". And possibly 
more.

The "unable to unpack .. header" problem would at a guess be a totally 
corrupted loose object. You should have a file named

	.git/objects/b2/8b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429

and it sounds like that file is corrupt. So far, apart from a CRLF 
conversion bug (that you wouldn't have triggered on OS X anyway), I think 
every single time we've seen that, it's been a real disk or memory 
corruption.

Trying to restore corrupt objects can be quite hard, since git stores them 
in a compressed format, and so git single-bit errors are very detectable 
(that's kind of the point of having cryptographically secure hashes!), but 
they are very much not fixable, unless you can find the original data that 
*resulted* in that object some way (in another clone of the git 
repository, or in a backup).

There are certainly ways to figure out what that object _should_ be, 
though. For example, if that object is the only corrupted entry, and it's 
a blob (ie pure data object), what you can generally do is still use the 
repo (as long as you avoid that particular blob), and do things like

	git log --raw -r --no-abbrev

and you'll see the git history with all blobs named with their SHA1's. 
Then you can just search for that b28b949.. name, and you'll see exactly 
which file (in which version) it was, and if you can just find a backup of 
that file (or re-create it *exactly* from previous versions and your 
memory of it), you can re-generate the git object and thus save your 
repository.

Of course, a much easier option tends to be to just have a backup 
repository that has that object in it, and then you can literally just 
copy that b28b949 object over.

In short: git basically guarantees that it will *find* all corruption, but 
it doesn't do backups for you. Backups are easy to do (cloning), and git 
also makes incremental backups trivial (ie just do "git fetch" or "git 
push"), but git won't do backups for you unless you ask for them that way.

			Linus

Re: Git clone error

[Denis Bueno]

On 07/31/2007 20:38, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Please do
> 
> cd /Volumes/work/scripts
> git fsck --full
> 
> which I would guess will almost certainly talk about some kind of problems
> with that object "b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429". And possibly
> more.

Indeed:

    scripts[10] > git fsck --full
    error: b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429: object corrupt or
missing
    missing blob b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429

Fortunately, it's the only one.

> There are certainly ways to figure out what that object _should_ be,
> though. For example, if that object is the only corrupted entry, and it's
> a blob (ie pure data object), what you can generally do is still use the
> repo (as long as you avoid that particular blob), and do things like
> 
> git log --raw -r --no-abbrev

    scripts[11] > git log --raw -r --no-abbrev | grep
b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
    :100755 100755 b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
9dbd5bb59198ab59e1850f838f2ed27c77364cde M      condor/condor-uninstall.sh
    :000000 100755 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 A      condor/condor-uninstall.sh

> and you'll see the git history with all blobs named with their SHA1's.
> Then you can just search for that b28b949.. name, and you'll see exactly
> which file (in which version) it was, and if you can just find a backup of
> that file (or re-create it *exactly* from previous versions and your
> memory of it), you can re-generate the git object and thus save your
> repository.

When you say "re-generate", do you mean `git add <file> ; git commit
<file>`?  Or something a bit more clever?  I suspect you actually meant the
latter, since you suggest recreating it *exactly*.

If I just recreate a version I'm happy with, can I add that to the repo and
go from there?

> Of course, a much easier option tends to be to just have a backup
> repository that has that object in it, and then you can literally just
> copy that b28b949 object over.

No such luck, but I'll back up my repos in the future.  Any hint on what
might have caused this kind of corruption?  That repo was created on my
laptop and only edited there; it's not a clone from some other machine.
It's possible that I have Ctrl-C'd some git operation in the past -- could
that have caused it?

Is there anything (e.g. trapping signals if a blob is being written until
it's done, or backing out of the current blob on SIG{INT,HUP}) that could
make this kind of corruption less easy to encounter?  I ask because I have
used VC systems (i.e. CVS, SVN, darcs, and now git) for 4+ years (not long
by any means, but long enough) and the only repository corruption I had ever
encountered was after I went mucking about in a CVS repo's internal
representation -- and I deserved that.


                      Denis
--
"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." -- Perlis

Re: Git clone error

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Denis Bueno wrote:
> 
> Indeed:
> 
>     scripts[10] > git fsck --full
>     error: b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429: object corrupt or missing
>     missing blob b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
> 
> Fortunately, it's the only one.

Ok. That's the "easy" case, although the fact that the file went missing 
in the first place is certainly worrisome. 

I think you said you were using OS X - have you seen crashes or are you 
using something like the experimental ZFS support?

Memory and disk corruption is also a possibility, so running fsck (I have 
*no* idea how you do that under OS X, but I bet others on the list know) 
is a good idea.

Also, *if* you actually have the file

	.git/objects/b2/8b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429

and it's not just missing entirely, please move it out, ie do something 
like

	mv .git/objects/b2/8b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 ~/corrupt-object

You want to move it away from the .git/objects directory in any case, 
because if it exists (but is corrupted), git will never overwrite it with 
the non-corrupted version. And you don't want to just delete it, because 
I'd love to see exactly *what* the corruption was.

> > There are certainly ways to figure out what that object _should_ be,
> > though. For example, if that object is the only corrupted entry, and it's
> > a blob (ie pure data object), what you can generally do is still use the
> > repo (as long as you avoid that particular blob), and do things like
> > 
> > git log --raw -r --no-abbrev
> 
>     scripts[11] > git log --raw -r --no-abbrev | grep b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
>     :100755 100755 b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 9dbd5bb59198ab59e1850f838f2ed27c77364cde M      condor/condor-uninstall.sh
>     :000000 100755 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 A      condor/condor-uninstall.sh

Ok, great. So it's the very first version of "condor/condor-uninstall.sh".

If you can find that original version, great. If not, you can get the 
*second* version by doing

	git cat-file blob 9dbd5bb59198ab59e1850f838f2ed27c77364cde > second-version

and if you remember what your changes were, try to just edit that back to 
the exact thing it was in the first version, if you can (note that by 
"exact", I do mean *exact*. Whitespace and all).

> When you say "re-generate", do you mean `git add <file> ; git commit
> <file>`?  Or something a bit more clever?  I suspect you actually meant the
> latter, since you suggest recreating it *exactly*.

Actually you can literally just do 

	git add my-regenerated-file

and it would do the right thing. But it also changes your index, so a 
better way would often be to do

	git hash-object -w <filename>

which will take any random file, and hash it into the object database.

So if you were able to re-generate the original, you should now have a 
*non*corrupted .git/objects/b2/8b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 
file, and git-fsck will be happy again!

And after that, I'd really like to see both the corrupt and the 
non-corrupt object, to try to figure out what the corruption is.

> If I just recreate a version I'm happy with, can I add that to the repo and
> go from there?

Well, it's not so much a version _you_ are happy with: you'd have to be 
able to re-create the exact old version (with the exact same SHA1), in 
order for git to be happy.

> No such luck, but I'll back up my repos in the future.  Any hint on what
> might have caused this kind of corruption?  That repo was created on my
> laptop and only edited there; it's not a clone from some other machine.
> It's possible that I have Ctrl-C'd some git operation in the past -- could
> that have caused it?

No, things like Ctrl-C are safe: we create new objects by writing them to 
a temporary file, and then using an atomic rename() operation on them 
(actually, a "link() + unlink()", but we fall back to "rename()" if that 
fails - some filesystems cannot link files between directories).

So the only way to get corruption is literally with a broken filesystem, 
or memory corruption. Of course, if the OS's "rename()" is broken, and 
isn't atomic (ie if it's "copy + delete" operation).

Of course, git bugs could do this, but quite frankly, this is (a) very 
simple code, and (b) we really haven't had bugs in this area.

Git does end up finding corruption that other VCS's don't. The strong 
hashes and the fact that fsck (and, in fact, even simple operations like 
clone) will check every single hash, means that single-bit corruption gets 
noticed (and is a fatal error) every time. Other SCM's? Not so much.

			Linus

Re: Git clone error

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > If I just recreate a version I'm happy with, can I add that to the repo and
> > go from there?
> 
> Well, it's not so much a version _you_ are happy with: you'd have to be 
> able to re-create the exact old version (with the exact same SHA1), in 
> order for git to be happy.

Btw, if you really cannot re-generate it, you'd basically need to create a 
whole new git archive without that blob (or basically with that blob 
replaced by another version).

We don't have wonderfully good support for that, because, quite frankly, 
we've not had this happen before. I think every time before, people have 
had the blob in some other copy of their git archive.

But the thing to use is "git filter-branch", which can take a git history 
and munge it arbitrarily. It would be the "tree-filter" that you'd use to 
replace that one blob that you cannot regenerate with another (ie you 
might decide to just replace the original version of the file with that 
*second* version, and regenerate the tree that way).

I'm cc'ing Dscho explicitly to see if he can help you with the exact 
syntax, and maybe we could even make this into a user-manual entry about 
how to handle corruption. I don't think we have anything in the 
documentation about this - we only cover the trivial cases where the 
objects are all good, but you've lost the pointers into it because you 
removed a branch by mistake or something.

		Linus

Re: Git clone error

[Steffen Prohaska]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> Memory and disk corruption is also a possibility, so running fsck  
> (I have
> *no* idea how you do that under OS X, but I bet others on the list  
> know)
> is a good idea.

AppleJack is the easiest way I know of:

http://applejack.sourceforge.net/


	Steffen

Re: Git clone error

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > If I just recreate a version I'm happy with, can I add that to the repo and
> > > go from there?
> > 
> > Well, it's not so much a version _you_ are happy with: you'd have to 
> > be able to re-create the exact old version (with the exact same SHA1), 
> > in order for git to be happy.
> 
> Btw, if you really cannot re-generate it, you'd basically need to create 
> a whole new git archive without that blob (or basically with that blob 
> replaced by another version).
> 
> We don't have wonderfully good support for that, because, quite frankly, 
> we've not had this happen before. I think every time before, people have 
> had the blob in some other copy of their git archive.
> 
> But the thing to use is "git filter-branch", which can take a git history 
> and munge it arbitrarily. It would be the "tree-filter" that you'd use to 
> replace that one blob that you cannot regenerate with another (ie you 
> might decide to just replace the original version of the file with that 
> *second* version, and regenerate the tree that way).
> 
> I'm cc'ing Dscho explicitly to see if he can help you with the exact 
> syntax, and maybe we could even make this into a user-manual entry about 
> how to handle corruption. I don't think we have anything in the 
> documentation about this - we only cover the trivial cases where the 
> objects are all good, but you've lost the pointers into it because you 
> removed a branch by mistake or something.

I doubt it would be that easy; the tree filter expects a _valid_ tree, 
which it checks out, and only then you can filter it.

But this is what I would do if I had the problem: I would try to create 
a state which is as close to the corrupt revision as possible, 
use a graft to replace the initial commit with that revision, and 
rewrite the branch. I'd probably start by doing something like this:

	$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/recreate-first && rm .git/index
	$ git ls-tree -r --name-only <initial-commit> |
		grep -v "^condor/condor-uninstall.sh$" |
		xargs git checkout <initial-commit>
	$ git checkout <second-commit> condor/condor-uninstall.sh
	[possibly some minor hacking on the latter file to make it work]
	$ git commit -c <initial-commit>

This starts a new branch, which has no ancestor yet.  It takes all files 
except the corrupt one from the first commit, and a replacement of the 
corrupt one from the second commit.  Then it takes all the meta-data from 
the first commit to create a replacement for the first commit.

Now I'd graft the second commit onto the first:

	$ git rev-parse <second-commit> recreate-first >> .git/info/grafts

This explicitely tells git to disregard the parent information given in 
<second-commit>, and to pretend that the recreated commit is its parent.

	BEWARE! Grafts are a powerful weapon, and you can spend tons of 
	time looking for an error, when all you did was grafting parts of 
	the history onto other parts of the history.  For example, I was 
	searching several nights for the bug preventing me to push one of 
	my repos, and it always gave an "unpacking" error.  Once I moved 
	the grafts out of the way, it miraculously worked.

After that, just call git-filter-branch (not yet released, but will 
probably be part of 1.5.3):

	$ git filter-branch <branchname>

Many things can go wrong through that process, so you want to make sure 
that all steps actually worked as intended (especially since I tested 
none of this, but wrote it in the mail program)!

Hth,
Dscho

Re: Git clone error

[Denis Bueno]

On 08/01/2007 11:17, "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
wrote:
> But this is what I would do if I had the problem: I would try to create
> a state which is as close to the corrupt revision as possible,
> use a graft to replace the initial commit with that revision, and
> rewrite the branch. I'd probably start by doing something like this:
> 
> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/recreate-first && rm .git/index
> $ git ls-tree -r --name-only <initial-commit> |
> grep -v "^condor/condor-uninstall.sh$" |
> xargs git checkout <initial-commit>
> $ git checkout <second-commit> condor/condor-uninstall.sh
> [possibly some minor hacking on the latter file to make it work]
> $ git commit -c <initial-commit>

Wow.  `commit' and `checkout' are the only two commands that I have ever
heard of in that sequence.

How difficult would it be to create a new git repo which is exactly the same
minus the initial condor-uninstall.sh commit?  That is, just to pretend the
initial import of condor-uninstall.sh never existed, and use the second
commit of the old repo the first commit of the new, and preserve the rest of
the history of the entire repo?  Or, to remove both condor-uninstall.sh
commits from the history -- deleting that history altogether -- and add it
back as a completely new file?

If I get enough courage, I'll attempt to understand exactly what it is
you're doing in the commands above and try it out on (a copy of) the repo.
My willingness to part with the current history and just reinitialise the
repo with its current contents increases with time, though.

The real problem is that I'm sure I have no idea exactly what the first
version of the file looked like, and how it differed from the next one.

                      Denis
--
"If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines
produced but as lines spent." -- Edsger Dijkstra

Re: Git clone error

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Denis Bueno wrote:

> On 08/01/2007 11:17, "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > But this is what I would do if I had the problem: I would try to create
> > a state which is as close to the corrupt revision as possible,
> > use a graft to replace the initial commit with that revision, and
> > rewrite the branch. I'd probably start by doing something like this:
> > 
> > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/recreate-first && rm .git/index
> > $ git ls-tree -r --name-only <initial-commit> |
> > grep -v "^condor/condor-uninstall.sh$" |
> > xargs git checkout <initial-commit>
> > $ git checkout <second-commit> condor/condor-uninstall.sh
> > [possibly some minor hacking on the latter file to make it work]
> > $ git commit -c <initial-commit>
> 
> Wow.  `commit' and `checkout' are the only two commands that I have ever
> heard of in that sequence.
> 
> How difficult would it be to create a new git repo which is exactly the same
> minus the initial condor-uninstall.sh commit?  That is, just to pretend the
> initial import of condor-uninstall.sh never existed, and use the second
> commit of the old repo the first commit of the new, and preserve the rest of
> the history of the entire repo?

That would be even easier.  Just graft "nothingness" as parent of the 
second commit:

	$ git rev-parse <second-commit> >> .git/info/grafts

But of course, you should use filter-branch nevertheless, since you would 
have to do the same hack in _every_ repository.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Git clone error

[Denis Bueno]

On 08/01/2007 15:12, "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
wrote:
>> How difficult would it be to create a new git repo which is exactly the same
>> minus the initial condor-uninstall.sh commit?  That is, just to pretend the
>> initial import of condor-uninstall.sh never existed, and use the second
>> commit of the old repo the first commit of the new, and preserve the rest of
>> the history of the entire repo?
> 
> That would be even easier.  Just graft "nothingness" as parent of the
> second commit:
> 
> $ git rev-parse <second-commit> >> .git/info/grafts

I must be misunderstanding:

    scripts[] > git fsck --full
    error: b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429: object corrupt or
missing
    missing blob b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429

    # b2... should fill in your <second-commit>?

    scripts[30] > git rev-parse b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429 >>
.git/info/grafts

    scripts[31] > git fsck --full
    error: b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429: object corrupt or
missing
    missing blob b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429

If I try to clone the repo, I get the same error.

                      Denis
--
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show
their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra

Re: Git clone error

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Denis Bueno wrote:

> On 08/01/2007 15:12, "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >> How difficult would it be to create a new git repo which is exactly the same
> >> minus the initial condor-uninstall.sh commit?  That is, just to pretend the
> >> initial import of condor-uninstall.sh never existed, and use the second
> >> commit of the old repo the first commit of the new, and preserve the rest of
> >> the history of the entire repo?
> > 
> > That would be even easier.  Just graft "nothingness" as parent of the
> > second commit:
> > 
> > $ git rev-parse <second-commit> >> .git/info/grafts
> 
> I must be misunderstanding:
> 
>     scripts[] > git fsck --full
>     error: b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429: object corrupt or
> missing
>     missing blob b28b949a1a3c8eb37ca6eefd024508fa8b253429
> 
>     # b2... should fill in your <second-commit>?

Ah no.  Linus diagnosed that this blob is your condor-uninstall script in 
your initial commit.  You should be able to get at it by calling "git log 
--root" and taking the last commit.  Just to make sure, "git show 
<first-commit>:bla/condor-uninstall.sh" should fail miserably, mentioning 
a corrupt blob.

The second commit I was referring to is the second last commit in the "git 
log --root" output.

Hth,
Dscho

Re: Git clone error

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Ah no.  Linus diagnosed that this blob is your condor-uninstall script in 
> your initial commit.

Well, I'm not sure the commit was the initial one, but it was the one that 
*introduced* that file. It *may* be the initial one, of course (and quite 
likely is, for an import), but..

		Linus

git clone error

[Chuck Ritter]

Hello,

I'm getting an error when I try to clone a git repo:

$ git clone ~dab143/src/OVER-REL/SOURCE-GIT-TEST OVER-REL
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cfr100/OVER-REL/.git/
cpio: objects/pack/pack-80a0460fc07be5e0628b02549fdaa186b792d3f3.keep:
Permission denied
888 blocks

# cat pack-80a0460fc07be5e0628b02549fdaa186b792d3f3.keep
fetch-pack 31620 on githost.arl.psu.edu

Permission on the keep file are 600. Of course this looks like a stale
lock of some sort.

We are using git version 1.5.4.1. The owner of the repository had
pushed changes to it from msysgit under Windows. I am not sure of the
version. It worked fine before that.

Is this an issue I should take up with the msysgit developers?

Once in this state what is the best way to resolve it and verify the
integrity of the repository?

Thanks
Chuck

Re: git clone error

[Junio C Hamano]

"Chuck Ritter" <cfr100@psu.edu> writes:

> $ git clone ~dab143/src/OVER-REL/SOURCE-GIT-TEST OVER-REL
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/cfr100/OVER-REL/.git/
> cpio: objects/pack/pack-80a0460fc07be5e0628b02549fdaa186b792d3f3.keep:
> Permission denied
> 888 blocks
>
> # cat pack-80a0460fc07be5e0628b02549fdaa186b792d3f3.keep
> fetch-pack 31620 on githost.arl.psu.edu
>
> Permission on the keep file are 600. Of course this looks like a stale
> lock of some sort.

The original repository you are cloning from is owned by somebody else,
and a file in it is not readable by you.  Bad.

No, .keep is not a stale lock.  It is active and valid --- do not
remove it --- it prevents the corresponding pack from being subject to
repacking.

The bug is that index-pack.c::final() tries to make the resulting pack and
idx readable with chmod(0444), but it forgets to make .keep readable.

To unblock you, you would need to ask the user "dab143" to make the
repository readable by you; the damage has already been done.  There may
be files other than that .keep file that is unreadable.

The following patch would prevent the breakage the repository you are
trying to clone from is suffering from happening again.

---

 index-pack.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index-pack.c b/index-pack.c
index 9c0c278..9dc3cfd 100644
--- a/index-pack.c
+++ b/index-pack.c
@@ -720,6 +720,7 @@ static void final(const char *final_pack_name, const char *curr_pack_name,
 				die("cannot write keep file");
 			report = "keep";
 		}
+		chmod(keep_name, 0444);
 	}
 
 	if (final_pack_name != curr_pack_name) {

Git clone error

[srinivasan.malligarjunan]

[root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# git clone git@github.com:/ayyanar/adva_cms.git
Initialize adva_cms/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/Desktop/git-1.5.6/adva_cms/.git/
The authenticity of host 'github.com (65.74.177.129)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,65.74.177.129' (RSA) to the list of
known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
[root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# git clone
git@github.com:/karthikeyan7585/adva_cms.git
Initialize adva_cms/.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/Desktop/git-1.5.6/adva_cms/.git/
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
[root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# 



The permission denied error is comming . Please help me.
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Re: Git clone error

[Andreas Ericsson]

srinivasan.malligarjunan wrote:
> [root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# git clone git@github.com:/ayyanar/adva_cms.git
> Initialize adva_cms/.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /root/Desktop/git-1.5.6/adva_cms/.git/
> The authenticity of host 'github.com (65.74.177.129)' can't be established.
> RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,65.74.177.129' (RSA) to the list of
> known hosts.
> Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> [root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# git clone
> git@github.com:/karthikeyan7585/adva_cms.git
> Initialize adva_cms/.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /root/Desktop/git-1.5.6/adva_cms/.git/
> Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> [root@aspire038 git-1.5.6]# 
> 
> 
> 
> The permission denied error is comming . Please help me.

You're trying to clone over ssh as the user "git", but your key doesn't
check out. You probably want to run the command

    git clone git://github.com/karthikeyan7585/adva_cms.git

which works just fine for me.

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