Hi, On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Charles Bailey schrieb: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: > >> I observed the same (on Windows). The reason is that above-mentioned > >> commit introduces a call to parse_objects(). But by the time that > >> fast-import calls write_ref_sha1() (and, hence, this new parse_objects()) > >> it has not yet written a pack file, and parse_objects() fails. I don't > >> have a clue how to fix this short of reverting the commit. > >> > > > > OK, so it's not just Mac OS X, then. From your description and my > > initial poke at the code, I can't immediately see a good reason why > > the test should succeed on Linux, though. > > My analysis is not correct. The pack file is present, but it seems to be > incomplete. > > The reason is the NO_MMAP build flag. If you compile with > NO_MMAP=YesPlease on Linux, t9301 fails as well. Does this ring a bell? Just a wild guess... Could it be that the mmap() happened before contents were written to that fd? The faked mmap() is just a malloc() && pread(), and would thus miss out on changes written after the mmap() call. Ciao, Dscho - 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