Re: [egit-dev] unknown compression method

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/3/8 Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 23:59, Bernard Leach <leachbj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This morning I tried to clone a local clone of the gerrit repository and
> eclipse reported the error 'Packfile corruption detected: unknown
> compression method'.  Is this a known issue?  Any work-around?

This sounds like a JGit build that doesn't include

 commit 4e187d898aac18c705b3ab6699745c6460e82ae6
 Author: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 Date:   Fri Mar 4 18:56:16 2011 -0800

   PackFile: Fix copy as-is for small objects

This is a recent bug fix I had to patch in to JGit, because an earlier
change broke packing. Its already in JGit master, I just wonder if a
nightly build of EGit picked up a bad JGit build.

Currently hudson.eclipse.org is down, I can spin a new build as soon as it's up again. 

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Matthias