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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:45:26 -0700
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Cc: Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de>,
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:05:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de> writes:
> 
> >> Hrm, has this ever been resolved?
> >
> > Thank you for asking.
> > My local git version is 1.7.5.4, the server version that I actually
> > ended up pushing the files to was however still some 1.6.x.
> > So it was a false alarm. Sorry about that.
> 
> Not really.  Pushing or fetching by a new version of Git against old
> version of Git *should* work; otherwise it is a bug.

Yes, but there may be old bugs in the server version that have since
been fixed. For example, the bug fixed by 838cd346 might be the cause of
this (that fix went into 1.6.0.3).

-Peff