F16 problems with git

Nikola Pajkovsky npajkovs at redhat.com
Wed Mar 14 10:44:16 UTC 2012


MichaƂ Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed recently a worrying git behavior. I often do something like that:
> git fsck --full
> git gc
> git push origin master | backup of the entire tree in tar archive
>
> 'git fsck' or 'git gc' sometimes causes damage to the repository ie:
>
> $ git fsck --full
> error: packed 694728b9fe62ad667f051a109c389403ffa0cb29 from
> .git/objects/pack/pack-a4bae2576b36116f1962a5496674ea921eebb6c5.pack
> is corrupt
>
> This time, however, after 'git fsck' rerun I don't get this error
> message, but in other cases, the repository is corrupted. Has anyone
> noticed similar problems with git on F16?

Linus wrote nice document about recovering corrupted blob

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt;h=323b513ed0e0ce8b749672f589a375073a050b97;hb=HEAD

-- 
Nikola


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