A bit of cut and paste will explain better than me... LOCAL $ git remote update Fetching origin remote: Counting objects: 25, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done. remote: Total 13 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done. fatal: bad object fa0da15b2ea5cc3e4eb9ed414b99d6a9d7da7864 error: git://git.heresymail.org/lib%2Fmpfr did not send all necessary objects UPSTREAM $ git fsck dangling blob ded848b21db04fcadf77a4a5d9f81955b4315c9f dangling blob 9c3976919b3cee56eabc3c9c9dfe5d223ce32686 dangling blob e17ab25a3a91bed830ddb06da4af1132434d5ee4 dangling blob 20a612ab361058838f680d72c1f4f8cb462ce1a2 UPSTREAM $ git gc Counting objects: 974, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (954/954), done. Writing objects: 100% (974/974), done. Total 974 (delta 572), reused 0 (delta 0) LOCAL $ git remote update Fetching origin remote: Counting objects: 25, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done. remote: Total 13 (delta 3), reused 11 (delta 2) Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done. fatal: bad object fa0da15b2ea5cc3e4eb9ed414b99d6a9d7da7864 error: git://git.heresymail.org/lib%2Fmpfr did not send all necessary objects LOCAL $ DELETE LOCAL REPO LOCAL $ git clone <upstream> Cloning into bare repository '/src/lib/mpfr'... remote: Counting objects: 972, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (382/382), done. remote: Total 972 (delta 570), reused 971 (delta 570) Receiving objects: 100% (972/972), 2.01 MiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (570/570), done. error: refs/stash does not point to a valid object! UPSTREAM $ git stash list stash@{0}: WIP on (no branch): f648dd0 Import 3.1.0 from tarball UPSTREAM $ git stash clear LOCAL $ DELETE LOCAL REPO LOCAL $ git clone <upstream> Cloning into bare repository '/src/lib/mpfr'... remote: Counting objects: 972, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (382/382), done. remote: Total 972 (delta 570), reused 971 (delta 570) Receiving objects: 100% (972/972), 2.01 MiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (570/570), done. UPSTREAM $ git version git version 1.7.8.2 LOCAL $ git version git version 1.7.8.2 Hope that's useful! Andrew Walrond -- 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