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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: git problem: pack has bad object at offset 77100841: inflate
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> srinivas naga vutukuri <srinivas.vutukuri@gmail.com> wrote:
> > remote: Counting objects: 879862, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (156686/156686), done.
> > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 77100841: inflate returned -3
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> > 
> > while doing "git clone" of linux kernel of latest 2.6.27-rc2.
> > But am able to do the latest stable successfully.
> ...
> > I am using cygwin, git 1.5.6.4
> 
> Where are you cloning from?
> 
> This is an indication that the data sent to your system from the
> remote side is corrupt.  Possibly a bad network link?
> 
> Remote side corruption should have been detected by the remote
> server as it was writing the data out.  The message above however
> came from your client, so the server seems to be OK.

Well, not exactly.  The server (git pack-objects) does skip some data 
integrity validation that the client (git index-pack) is doing anyway in 
order to cut cycles on the server machine.


Nicolas