[Savannah-hackers-public] savane git cannot be committed

[Karl Berry]

So I did git commit on the not-checked-in files in frontend:/usr/src/savane
since nobody else has.  Namely:

git commit -m'safe htmlify from Nico' frontend/php/account/register.php 
git commit -m'registration wording' frontend/php/account/register.php
git commit -m'do not specify nonfree (or any) fonts' \
   frontend/php/css/Savannah.css
git commit -m'updated people.orig.png, do not know why' \
   frontend/php/images/common/contexts1/people.orig.png

(Plus --author 'Karl Berry <address@hidden>' since these had to be done as
root since that's who owns the checkout.)

However, git push fails with:
error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
To git://git.sv.gnu.org/administration/savane.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
error: failed to push some refs to 
'git://git.sv.gnu.org/administration/savane.git'

I have no idea what that means or how to fix it.  Can anyone deal with it?

k