Re: Git woes

[Nico Weber <thakis@chromium.org>]

Hi git list,

Alex Riesen asked me to forward this to this list.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 27, 7:42 am, Nico Weber <tha...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> Trying to pull:
>>
>> thakis-macbookpro:~/src/chrome-git/src thakis$ git pull
>> remote: Counting objects: 1859, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1267/1267), done.
>> remote: Total 1393 (delta 1087), reused 195 (delta 107)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (1393/1393), 2.57 MiB | 781 KiB/s, done.
>> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
>> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> You're on MacOSX, right? What version of git are you running?
> Where do you pull from? (So it can be reproduced)
>
> If you can provide this information, then maybe send it to the
> Git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org, no subscription required),
> or at least back to me? Maybe you can strace (is it possible
> on MacOSX?) the "git pull" (because pread never returns
> ENOENT) and attach the trace as well?
>
> Sorry for asking you off-list, but I noticed your problem
> really accidentally (by browsing the list's archives), and
> not sure I am prepared to deal with the list's traffic.
>

Yes, I'm on OS X 10.5.8.

I'm pulling from git://git.chromium.org/chromium.git. This worked fine
for the last month or so, I had the problem for the first time
yesterday evening.

$ git --version
git version 1.6.0.2

Sadly, I fixed the problem accidentally by running something like

  rm -rf .git/svn/
  git svn fetch; git merge trunk
  git merge refs/remotes/origin/trunk
  git checkout -f HEAD
  git pull

(if that looks like I don't know what I'm doing, you're right)

If it happens again, I'll post a dtrace to this list.

Nico