modification of sources file causes git corruption.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Aug 2 00:54:28 UTC 2010
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:58:26PM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> That's not "corruption", that's just an unreferenced object, which does
> no harm except to waste space. "git gc" will delete such objects.
(20:50:18:davej at gelk:kernel)$ git fsck --full
dangling blob 41bc432a23a83d5775562572936792fc25aa9380
(20:50:29:davej at gelk:kernel)$ git gc
Counting objects: 395, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (274/274), done.
Writing objects: 100% (395/395), done.
Total 395 (delta 119), reused 388 (delta 115)
(20:50:31:davej at gelk:kernel)$ git fsck --full
dangling blob 41bc432a23a83d5775562572936792fc25aa9380
I've just been deleting them by hand from .git/objects/
but at the frequency the kernel rebases, this is a pain.
They may be harmless, but if something was to go wrong, they'd make figuring
out what happened more complicated.
Dave
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