Re: [PUB]corrupt repos does not return error with `git fsck`

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>]

Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info> writes:

> I was going by the answer (by CodeWizard) in
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/30348615/350713

OK, so the hash you got comes from a superproject which references it.
My guess is that the superproject did a private commit in a submodule,
added this submodule to the superproject, and forgot to push the
submodule.

If so, it's a user error (that could arguably have been avoided with a
better command-line interface, so Git is partly guilty), but not a
repository corruption.

> If I just give a random hash to `git show` in that repos, I get
>
>     fatal: ambiguous argument '...': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

Not "a random hash", but a random abreviated hash. Look:

Changing the last digit:

$ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d23
fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d23
$ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d24
fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d24
$ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d25
fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d25
$ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d26
fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d26

Removing the last digit:

$ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d2 
fatal: ambiguous argument '280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4d2': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

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