Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

quoted text
> Charles Bailey schrieb:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> >> I observed the same (on Windows). The reason is that above-mentioned
> >> commit introduces a call to parse_objects(). But by the time that
> >> fast-import calls write_ref_sha1() (and, hence, this new parse_objects())
> >> it has not yet written a pack file, and parse_objects() fails. I don't
> >> have a clue how to fix this short of reverting the commit.
> >>
> > 
> > OK, so it's not just Mac OS X, then.  From your description and my
> > initial poke at the code,  I can't immediately see a good reason why
> > the test should succeed on Linux, though.
> 
> My analysis is not correct. The pack file is present, but it seems to be
> incomplete.
> 
> The reason is the NO_MMAP build flag. If you compile with
> NO_MMAP=YesPlease on Linux, t9301 fails as well. Does this ring a bell?

Just a wild guess... Could it be that the mmap() happened before contents 
were written to that fd?  The faked mmap() is just a malloc() && pread(), 
and would thus miss out on changes written after the mmap() call.

Ciao,
Dscho

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html