Subject: Re: [git failure] failure pulling latest Linus tree

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:36:54 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> For some reason which we haven't been able to track down yet, the
>> recent load imposed by FC6 caused zeus1's load to skyrocket, but not
>> zeus2's... it's largely a mystery.
> 
> Would kernel.org prefer RPM cut on a FC6 box now?
> 

No; since we have now (finally) archieved "OS parity" we're going to 
keep hera, zeus1, and zeus2 in sync going forward.

>> HOWEVER, git 1.4.3 seems to have been bad chicken.  When we ran it we
>> got a neverending stream of segfaults in the logs.
> 
> If that is git-daemon dying when talking to older clients, that
> has been fixed in 1.4.3.2 (it's virtual hosting support had an
> off-by-one wrong check to tell older clients from newer one).
> 
> Sorry about that -- we heard about the incompatibility this
> Monday.

This stuff happens... it's dealt with now.

	-hpa