From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Tweed" Subject: Re: [Bug] vfat: Not a git archive Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:37:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <873anwt9ya.fsf@debian.erik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Thomas Christensen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 02 12:38:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K37R9-0003yy-2I for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:38:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751770AbYFBKhv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:37:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751993AbYFBKhv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:37:51 -0400 Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.31]:19498 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751577AbYFBKhu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:37:50 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so466205ywe.1 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:37:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=PzMviOsFr/MI59sIsPyYjtlqfF6mLOWnvFizmNKiVSY=; b=XCGgZnKarBYIJ+3QJ2dpwsWA9oUQsl/9xsy+UG64eVJDKUFC/ncmlrYJUSjupQ8RGplus1LSDMWZHFnqxBRgjsb6tTWjuVvmcHTuWCC2IuZ9J20ZKWhi/rsGkTdXqFVgUfOFt/Qp0mOU7iTZKgQv62cT+VCkeqFvMhYxhwSBiyk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AicGqObaZNVi0IpYzLgF/sM+2lC+pflgXeV96zJHGBhOxZF/XrCD9rdibHWXF0jRN+t0TyBHlc4gICCtrpcMvDgACaz0KGH6AJUKDPnNLh446dNN5f2boXT/rhcJk4WA/QvcURgvvSL67TsrQQGII4R7/cxb3rFjemPf4NcXFfE= Received: by 10.151.145.21 with SMTP id x21mr10588990ybn.66.1212403069178; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.145.6 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:37:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873anwt9ya.fsf@debian.erik.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Christensen wrote: > Hi, > > I am having this issue on Debian with kernel 2.6.25 (2.6.24 works fine) > and git 1.5.5.3. > > $ git push /media/KINGSTON/foo.git > fatal: '/media/KINGSTON/foo.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > > A notable difference between these 2 kernels is this line: > > [ 62.575939] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! > > which appears in 2.6.25. I don't remember if it gives this particular error message, but some vfat mounting options cause the file 'HEAD' to appear to the filesystem as 'head' which git doesn't like. (I don't think there any other basic git files which have uppercase.)It's worth having a look and see if that's happened. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ david.tweed@gmail.com Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot