From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git pull failure, truncated object
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:41:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705081140000.24220@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17984.35097.568689.482933@lisa.zopyra.com>
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
> He did a git-gc, twice, and retried. Still failed.
>
> So, he called me in and we tried to see if the server was acting up
> --- perhaps an NFS problem, as we've had those before, but got very
> different error messages. Watched the log file from git-daemon, and
> saw nothing. Finally we took a look at the local repos
> .git/objects/4b, and 4b93eb81265ea4f2b436618a4b1c3bea2bedf06d was of
> length 0.
>
> So, I looked in the man page of git-gc and thought to try --prune,
> as this was not an active repository. This worked, and then
> the pull did as well.
>
> I'm wondering why git-gc did not at least warn us of this problem when
> we tried it. It appeared to us that git-gc gave our repo a clean bill
> of health, and so we turned our attention to the remote and
> investigated there, instead of continuing in the local repo.
git-gc != git-fsck.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 14:28 git pull failure, truncated object Bill Lear
2007-05-08 14:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08 15:05 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08 15:41 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-05-08 15:46 ` Bill Lear
2007-05-08 17:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
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