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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:02:44 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"
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On 10/26/2013 12:23 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 07:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Please excuse any duplication.
>>
>> I'm getting the following when attempting to clone a large git
>> repository using Cygwin's git:
>>
>> $ git clone gitolite@172.20.10.200:axcient
>> Cloning into 'axcient'...
>> remote: Counting objects: 168263, done.
>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (73257/73257), done.
>> remote: Total 168263 (delta 90112), reused 166470 (delta 88591)
>> Receiving objects: 100% (168263/168263), 4.10 GiB | 14.30 MiB/s, done.
>> error: index-pack died of signal 11)
>> fatal: index-pack failed
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.7.9
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MATER2K8SHPT 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:37 x86_64
>> Cygwin
>> $
>>
>> I saw some things about this a while ago. Has this been fixed?
> It's been very quite about this issue. Usually at least somebody
> responds.

A "fix" for a slightly different git failure, may also work in your 
case: Reduce the size of the environment block passed by cygwin/bash to git.

$ PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/libexec:/usr/sbin git ... other args ...

Give it a try and see if it helps at all.

--
Chuck


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