Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> writes: > A few weeks ago upgrading from 1.3.x to 1.4.1 I had a problem with > git-daemon. I started git-daemon on a terminal but did not redirect > stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null (actually using daemon(8) on freebsd > without -f but just disowning the process and closing the terminal > works fine too, nothing freebsd/daemon(8) specific). After closing > the terminal I was not able to use the git-daemon anymore with some > versions of the git. So now I took some time and tried to find what > was the reason for that. > > It seems to be related to the client version too (git without version > appendix is the current next (028cfcba78c3e4). > > 583b7ea31b7c16~1 (last good): > $ git clone git://host:9419/foo > $ git1.3.2 clone git://host:9419/foo.git > (cloned successfully, both no output) > > 583b7ea31b7c16 (first bad): > $ git clone git://host:9420/foo > Generating pack... > Done counting 6 objects. > Deltifying 6 objects. > 100% (6/6) done > Total 6, written 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) > $ git1.3.2 clone git://host:9420/foo.git > fatal: cannot mmap packfile '/somewhere/foo/.git/objects/pack/tmp-VX82qz': Invalid argument > error: git-fetch-pack: unable to read from git-index-pack > error: git-index-pack died with error code 128 > fetch-pack from 'git://host:9420/foo.git' failed. > [1] 13267 exit 1 git1.3.2 clone git://host:9420/foo.git > (/somewhere is the cwd on the client) > > I tried to find which part of the patch caused the problem and came > out with the patch below. With this I can clone with git1.3.2 again > but then git 1.4.x does not show any statistics about packing, its > just a starting point to look at. Perhaps someone has an idea why > this happens. I've got to sleep now :) > > --- > upload-pack.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c > index 7b86f69..94f0d85 100644 > --- a/upload-pack.c > +++ b/upload-pack.c > @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static void create_pack_file(void) > sz = read(pe_pipe[0], progress, > sizeof(progress)); > if (0 < sz) > - send_client_data(2, progress, sz); > + write(2, progress, sz); > else if (sz == 0) { > close(pe_pipe[0]); > pe_pipe[0] = -1; This breaks the newer clients that knows how to do side-band doesn't it? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html