Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2008.07.23 01:17:45 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Hi, here is a manual painful down-secting (opposed to a bisect ;P) I > > did, since git in next cannot fetch on a regular basis for me. The > > culprit seems to be commit 92392b4: > > > > ┌─(1:11)──<~/dev/scm/git 92392b4...>── > > └[artemis] git fetch > > remote: Counting objects: 461, done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (141/141), done. > > remote: Total 263 (delta 227), reused 155 (delta 121) > > Receiving objects: 100% (263/263), 95.55 KiB, done. > > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed > > fatal: index-pack failed > > [2] 16674 abort (core dumped) git fetch > > > > ┌─(1:12)──<~/dev/scm/git 92392b4...>── > > └[artemis] git checkout -m HEAD~1; make git-index-pack > > Previous HEAD position was 92392b4... index-pack: Honor core.deltaBaseCacheLimit when resolving deltas > > HEAD is now at 03993e1... index-pack: Track the object_entry that creates each base_data > > GIT_VERSION = 1.5.6.3.3.g03993 > > CC index-pack.o > > LINK git-index-pack > > > > ┌─(1:12)──<~/dev/scm/git 03993e1...>── > > └[artemis] git fetch > > remote: Counting objects: 461, done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (141/141), done. > > remote: Total 263 (delta 227), reused 155 (delta 121) > > Receiving objects: 100% (263/263), 95.55 KiB, done. > > Resolving deltas: 100% (227/227), completed with 153 local objects. > > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > > 5ba2c22..0868a30 html -> origin/html > > 2857e17..abeeabe man -> origin/man > > 93310a4..95f8ebb master -> origin/master > > 559998f..e8bf351 next -> origin/next > > > > You can see the commit sha's in the prompt. 03993e1 is fine, 92392b4 is > > broken, I've absolutely no clue about what happens. > > > > All I can say is that at some point in get_data_from_pack, obj[1].idx > > points to something that is *not* a sha so it's probably corrupted. > > (from index-pack.c). > > Here's how to reproduce: Funny. That does not reproduce the bug here at all. But then, it is unsurprising, since both Pierre and me did something similar yesterday, fetching _just_ the pre-fetch refs into a freshly initted Git repository, and then fetching from kernel.org. Tested on x86_64. Ciao, Dscho