Hello Linus, > It passes smaller clones fine with ElectricFence (and bigger ones fail > because EF uses *so* much memory for its checking that you cannot actually > complete them), so I don't think this is a git bug. Sounds like either the > hw problems are real, or there is some zlib (or other library) issue.. (mailrelay) [/var/tmp] git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Initialized empty Git repository in /var/tmp/linux-2.6/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 496911 objects. remote: Deltifying 496911 objects... remote: 100% (496911/496911) done Indexing 496911 objects... remote: Total 496911 (delta 401539), reused 493712 (delta 398653) 100% (496911/496911) done Resolving 401539 deltas... 100% (401539/401539) done Checking 22413 files out... 100% (22413/22413) done I have a very similar machine. For this one it works. It has 32 bit kernel and userland. Debian etch again. v2.6.20. Does someone know a command for debian that checks the checksums for every installed packages and the file that are included in that package? I know there is one for rpm so there must be one for debian, too. Thomas - 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