From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Hellmuth Subject: Re: Inspecting a corrupt git object Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:11:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4C594AE3.4000708@ira.uka.de> References: <20100804092530.GA30070@jpl.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 04 13:29:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ogc9u-00082f-7o for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:29:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757404Ab0HDL3K convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:29:10 -0400 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:49805 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932638Ab0HDL3J (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:29:09 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1115 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:29:09 EDT Received: from irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.5]) by iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtps port 25 id 1Ogbre-0005gP-QK for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:10:31 +0200 Received: from i20smtp.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.32.226]) by irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtps port 25 for id 1Ogbre-0000eR-KZ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:10:26 +0200 Received: from throatwobbler.iaks.uka.de ([172.16.22.120]) by i20smtp.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ogbsh-00006H-HX for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:11:31 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100302) In-Reply-To: <20100804092530.GA30070@jpl.local> X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (irams1.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-AV: Kaspersky (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de 1280920232.028611000 X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de 1280921348.078808000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Magnus B=E4ck 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. >=20 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 IMH= O Holger