bug report

[Fred Batty]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:07 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
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>> Yes, and I can clone successfully if the filesystem is local.
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>> Matt Mackall wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:01 -0800, Fred Batty wrote:
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>>>> I don't believe so. But like I said, checking out the workspace fresh on 
>>>> the same filesystem also errors.
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>>> Jargon fail. Are you saying you're cloning from a known-good source?
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> I'm afraid I can't reconcile these two statements. Let's try again.
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> What I understand so far:
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> - you've got a damaged repo
> - you're using Cygwin under Virtualbox
> - you're using CIFS to mount the filesystem from Win7 host
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> What I'd like to know:
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> - do you have a remote repo that passes verify?
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I don't have access to the remote repo. But I can successfully clone 
from it writing to a local filesystem.

> - what happens when you make a fresh clone from a known-good remote
> source[1]?
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Writing to the disk from the Windows host, it fails with the zlib error.

Writing to a local filesystem, it works.

> [1] clones on the same filesystem behave differently
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