[Pkg-clamav-devel] OK, is it just me?

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Scott Kitterman said:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 14:50:53 Stephen Gran wrote:
> > pristine-tar checkout clamav_0.94.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> 
> It's probably just because it's late and I'm really tired, but that didn't 
> work for me:
> 
> clamav/git/clamav$ pristine-tar checkout clamav_0.94.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> fatal: not a tree object
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> pristine-tar: command failed: git archive --format=tar 
> 21ea5fbc87f321345486232ed65a25d12b6fc1d4 | (cd '/tmp/pristine-tar.hxSFffOpsj' 
> && tar x)
> 
> Maybe it will be obvious tomorrow, but advice appreciated ...

I think I see what went wrong.  I probably screwed up generating the ref
for pristine-tar.  What I did was clone the 0.94 head to a new branch,
then cherry-pick only the commit that made it match the tarball.  Then I
used the head of that branch to generate the xdelta for pristine-tar,
and deleted the branch before pushing.

It worked here, so I thought it was OK, but in retrospect, of course git
is clever enough to delete objects that are no longer referenced, so it
threw away the commit that pristine-tar needs before uploading.  It only
works locally because I have garbage collected my local git tree.  I've
regenerated the bits pristine-tar needs, and this time I'll leave the
temporary branch around.  That'll teach me to try to be clever :)

Sorry about that.
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