On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:21:10AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:46:09 -0700
> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
> > I'm worried about corruption or something else gone wrong however:
> > # git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/exp/gentoo-x86.git
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /dev/shm/test/gentoo-x86/.git/
> > remote: Counting objects: 4696137, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1299323/1299323), done.
> > Receiving objects:   6% (305717/4696137), 56.34 MiB | 1217 KiB/s   
> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly89.08 MiB | 1540 KiB/s   
> > fatal: early EOF
> > fatal: index-pack failed
> More likely you're just having problems with the connection lasting for
> too long. 'git fetch' will resume (on a per-object basis, which is
> fine so long as there aren't too many huge packs).
It's a single ~910MiB pack. I'll play with it and see how we can make it
better, maybe limiting the pack sizes to 50Mb/ea.

Thanks for the tip. I forgot I had some stuff that terminates
long-running connections to avoid abuse (and bad CVS/SVN/Git clients
that don't close the connection properly).

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