I now created a repo on a 64 bit system (same command as before), then duplicated it. One copy I applied git gc to on the 64 bit host system, the other copy I gave to my 32 bit virtual machine to apply git gc to it. The 64 bit host uses git from the Ubuntu repositories, the 32 bit virtual machine uses git 2.9 from github with the patches applied. git gc worked without problems on the host but I got frank@frank-virtual-16-04-32-bit:~/g$ git gc Counting objects: 6, done. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. error: bad packed object CRC for f595ad71c1a1ecc312ddcb32a84a4bfc4a2ed1c8 Writing objects: 100% (6/6), done. Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) error: failed to validate delta base reference at offset 342896 from .git/objects/pack/pack-630b5a3f28cd9d02a546462bf0d0bc640ffde784.pack error: bad offset for revindex error: failed to read object 4246d27f8e0149d45687b0cc23bc29a67f1f0c79 at offset 342887 from .git/objects/pack/pack- 630b5a3f28cd9d02a546462bf0d0bc640ffde784.pack fatal: packed object 4246d27f8e0149d45687b0cc23bc29a67f1f0c79 (stored in .git/objects/pack/pack- 630b5a3f28cd9d02a546462bf0d0bc640ffde784.pack) is corrupt error: failed to run prune frank@frank-virtual-16-04-32-bit:~/g$ on the virtual machine. Not including the mailing list in CC wasn't intended. -- With kind regards Christoph Michelbach On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 17:23 +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Christoph Michelbach > <michelbach94@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I now tried git gc again and it failed (in a different way, though; > > and > > the error message only appeared once git gc terminated). > > > > Full input and output: > > > > christoph@virt-16-04-32-bit:~$ mkdir test && cd test && git init && > > touch someFile && git add someFile && git commit -m "Initial > > commit." > > && dd if=/dev/urandom of=bigBinaryFile bs=1MB count=4294 && git add > > bigBinaryFile && git commit -m "Introduced big biary file." > > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/christoph/test/.git/ > > [master (root-commit) 20507ef] Initial commit. > > 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 someFile > > 4294+0 records in > > 4294+0 records out > > 4294000000 bytes (4.3 GB, 4.0 GiB) copied, 435.236 s, 9.9 MB/s > > [master 88e5dbb] Introduced big biary file. > > 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 bigBinaryFile > > christoph@virt-16-04-32-bit:~/test$ git gc > > Counting objects: 6, done. > > Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. > > Writing objects: 100% (6/6), done. > > Total 6 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0) > > error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect header check) > > error: failed to read object > > 705f438ccb845871ffba9d4b56f16ac763652937 > Sigh.. I'll try again :) BTW if you have a 64-bit machine too, try > create the repo with it (so we are sure the repo is not corrupted in > the first place) then you can run tests like this on 32-bit systems. > The previous "bad crc" message was a fault in the code, not the data. > > PS. I have just let gc run till the end (last time I tried > pack-objects, which is only part of gc) and got a(nother) error. > Checking... BTW, you should send these mails to git@ as well, no need > for private message exchange. -- 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