On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:12:51PM -0500, Matt Burke wrote: > + git init -q > + git fetch -q -fu ../../../other '+refs/*:refs/*' > fatal: bad object 9b985fbe6a2b783c16756077a8be261c94b6c197 > error: ../../../other did not send all necessary objects I was going to ask you to send your repository, but I can easily reproduce here. I guess people don't run into it because it's uncommon to fetch the whole refs/ namespace from a non-bare repo (and bare repos do not tend to have stashes). Here's a minimal reproduction recipe: git init repo && cd repo && echo content >foo && git add . && git commit -m foo && echo more >>foo && git stash && git init --bare sub && cd sub && git fetch .. 'refs/*:refs/*' It looks like we are not feeding refs/stash properly to pack-objects. I'll try to take a closer look later today. -Peff -- 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