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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fsck option to remove corrupt objects - why/why not?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:36:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8ukgug31.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgda8mVbqP5=Ag8juN9HMQp7iQ9eDJETfRJe1b0taAFGkg@mail.gmail.com> (Johan Herland's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:04:04 +0200")

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> I simply copied the packfile containing the good copy into the
> corrupted repo, and then ran a "git gc", which "happened" to use the
> good copy of the corrupted object and complete successfully (instead
> of barfing on the bad copy). The GC then removed the old
> (now-obsolete) packfiles, and thus the corruption was gone.
>
> However, exactly _why_ git happened to prefer the good copy in my
> copied packfile instead of the bad copy in the existing packfile, I do
> not know.

By design ;-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-16 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20141015234637.9B4FC781EFB@mail110.syd.optusnet.com.au>
2014-10-16  0:13 ` fsck option to remove corrupt objects - why/why not? Ben Aveling
2014-10-16  9:04   ` Johan Herland
2014-10-16 12:25     ` Jeff King
2014-10-16 12:48       ` Johan Herland
2014-10-16 16:36     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-16 11:59   ` Matthieu Moy

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