I'm still a bit under the weather and do not have enough concentration to dig into the problem tonight, but I noticed that something in "next", most likely the delta-base-offset patchset, broke git-index-pack: $ X=ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/objects/pack/pack-$X.pack $ ~/git-master/bin/git-index-pack pack-$X.pack ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd $ git-index-pack pack-$X.pack fatal: packfile 'pack-ec0c3491753e115e1775256f6b7bd1bce4dea7cd.pack' has unresolved deltas - To unsubscribe from this list: 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