On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 03:29:28PM -0500, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > On this machine,
> > >
> > > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% uname -a
> > > FreeBSD hydra.priv.oc.ietfng.org 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #13: Sat Nov 14 19:40:25 EST 2009 root@hydra.priv.oc.ietfng.org:/systank/obj/systank/src/sys/NWFKERN  sparc64
> > >
> > > attempting to fetch from an svn source yields the following error:
> > >
> > > rs hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% git svn init -s https://joshua.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/joshua test-joshua
> > > Initialized empty Git repository in /tank0/mirrors/misc/test-joshua/.git/                                       
> > > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc% cd test-joshua                                                               
> > > mirrors hydra:/tank0/mirrors/misc/test-joshua% git svn fetch
> > >         A       scripts/distributedLM/config.template       
> > > [...]
> > >         A       build.xml
> > > r1 = fe84a7d821ec6d92da75133ac7ad1deb476b6484 (refs/remotes/trunk)
> > > error: index uses  extension, which we do not understand
> > > fatal: index file corrupt
> > > write-tree: command returned error: 128
> > 
> > I could not reproduce that on powerpc (both 32bit and 64bit).
> > 
> > Andreas.

I got some free time and tracked it down.  The following one-line delta
fixes this issue for me; AIUI on sparc64 "unsigned long" is 8 bits and in
the wrong endianness for the memcpy trick to work as written?  I could be
sligntly off in my assessment of the problem, tho'.

index 1bbaf1c..9033dd3 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ int read_index_from(struct index_state *istate, const char *path)
                 * extension name (4-byte) and section length
                 * in 4-byte network byte order.
                 */
-               unsigned long extsize;
+               uint32_t extsize;
                memcpy(&extsize, (char *)mmap + src_offset + 4, 4);
                extsize = ntohl(extsize);
                if (read_index_extension(istate,

--nwf;