Re: fact-import: failed to apply delta

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Hi,

[nice typo in the subject BTW]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> I'm getting a "fatal: failed to apply delta" from fast-import. I'm using 
> a lot of checkpoints, and I haven't had it happen without making 
> progress, so I was eventually able to import what I was importing (bunch 
> of stuff I can't distribute, imported from perforce with the latest 
> version of my p4 importer that I'm still working on). Also, everything 
> that was saved by the checkpoints was valid and correct (at least after 
> the fact).
> 
> I'm going to see if it's reproducable, and, if so, if I can get a test 
> case that I can distribute, but I wanted to post to see if anyone had 
> any special debugging advice for this error message and program 
> combination.

I see three likely candidates: two in index-pack.c and one in sha1_file.c.  
My advice: instrument the code (IOW litter the code with debug output that 
tells you where it did what), and then run it on the same test case you 
had the problems.

Ciao,
Dscho

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