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From: Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de>
Subject: Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:36:25 -0700
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de> writes:
> 
>>> Hrm, has this ever been resolved?
>>
>> Thank you for asking.
>> My local git version is 1.7.5.4, the server version that I actually
>> ended up pushing the files to was however still some 1.6.x.
>> So it was a false alarm. Sorry about that.
> 
> Not really.  Pushing or fetching by a new version of Git against old
> version of Git *should* work; otherwise it is a bug.

Well, okay. The (outdated) server
runs on openSUSE 11.1,
has kernel 2.6.27.39-0.2-default x86_64 GNU/Linux, 
uses git version 1.6.0.2
and gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.17 .

As I said earlier, `git push` worked in the beginning and just stopped
working one day.
I can still reproduce this error, so let me know if you want more info.