On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > srinivas naga vutukuri <srinivas.vutukuri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > remote: Counting objects: 879862, done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (156686/156686), done. > > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 77100841: inflate returned -3 > > fatal: index-pack failed > > > > while doing "git clone" of linux kernel of latest 2.6.27-rc2. > > But am able to do the latest stable successfully. > ... > > I am using cygwin, git 1.5.6.4 > > Where are you cloning from? > > This is an indication that the data sent to your system from the > remote side is corrupt. Possibly a bad network link? > > Remote side corruption should have been detected by the remote > server as it was writing the data out. The message above however > came from your client, so the server seems to be OK. Well, not exactly. The server (git pack-objects) does skip some data integrity validation that the client (git index-pack) is doing anyway in order to cut cycles on the server machine. Nicolas -- 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
