On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:06:41 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes: >Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> % strace -f -o tracefile git clone --bare ~/devel/project >> [...] >> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=39395, packfile size=0 >> [...] >> % grep pread tracefile >> 28635 pread(3, <unfinished ...> >> 28635 <... pread resumed> "", 207, 39395) = 0 >> 28635 write(2, "cannot pread pack file: Success "..., 59) = 59 > >Well, that answers that. The packfile is 0 bytes long. Why? >We downloaded the data and are trying to resolve deltas... but >when we go back into the packfile we thought we had, we find it is >nothing but an empty file. NFS strikes again! > >Have you been able to clone onto this drive before? Maybe with a >different version of Git (1.4.x series, before this pread change >in index-pack)? Clearly this operation should be working, but >its not, and I'm certainly at a loss for why the file would just >magically truncate itself. Yes: 1.4.x worked fine. This was actually my attempt to re-do the 1.4 clone I had laying around, as I wanted my backup done with 1.5. I still have the 1.4 cloned repo, just moved it out of the way... Bill - 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