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From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:11:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C594AE3.4000708@ira.uka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804092530.GA30070@jpl.local>

Magnus Bäck schrieb:
> Any other ideas why we would see such a difference? Hardware
> malfunction or memory corruption I guess, but something else?
> I can supply the actual object files if necessary.
> 

I checked with a repository here and all objects seem to start with 78
01. That means it is a common prefix. Ergo no malicious tampering, as
that would make only sense if the contents of the blob had changed.

So a random hardware or software malfunction is left as explanation IMHO

Holger

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04  9:25 Inspecting a corrupt git object Magnus Bäck
2010-08-04  9:48 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2010-08-04 13:09   ` Magnus Bäck
2010-08-04  9:48 ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-04 13:02   ` Magnus Bäck
2010-08-04 11:11 ` Holger Hellmuth [this message]

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