I have upgraded and the problem has disappeared. Many thanks for the advice. -tom Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > tom sgouros <tomfool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote: > > > > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push': > > > > > > > > tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push > > > > updating 'refs/heads/master' > > > > from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f > > > > to 5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3 > > > > Also local refs/remotes/origin/master > > > > Generating pack... > > > > Done counting 10 objects. > > > > Deltifying 10 objects... > > > > error: pack-objects died with strange error > > > > unpack eof before pack header was fully read > > > > ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error) > > > > error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@xxxxxxxxx/home/tomfool/hpl.git' > > > > tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ > > > > > > I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a > > > server which had submodule-ignorant git installed. Maybe it's that? > > > > I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version > > 1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server. I installed > > git via the fink package manager. Could there be some other > > incompatibility? > > This change came after 1.5.3.6 and I think its what you are > tripping over: > > commit 481f0ee60eef2c34b891e5d04b7e6e5a955eedf4 > Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Nov 11 23:35:23 2007 +0000 > > Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules > > rev-list aborting because it cannot mark a submodule commit > as uninteresting should cause pack-objects to abort too since > the list of objects wasn't completely produced. > > That fix is in 1.5.3.7 or later. > > -- > Shawn. > -- ------------------------ tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net -- 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
