[Buildroot] [PATCH] autobuild-run: remove only tarballs from download dir

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2018-04-15 22:38 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:10:26 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > > OK, so in practice removing random files inside the git/ folders should
> > > not cause any problem ?  
> > 
> > Well, if you remove files from the working copy, no. The next git-checkout
> > would fix it to a certain extent, which can be covered by a mix of
> > git-clean + git-checkout, again to a certain extent...
> > 
> > However, if you remove files from below .git, you can cause heavy
> > breakage. Even removing a single object will cause the tree to get
> > uterly broken, not telling what happens when one removes a ref or
> > HEAD.
> > 
> > So, runniong git-fsck would catch the cases where something is missing
> > in .git, in which case we're toast and the git cache is as good as if
> > it were not present.
> 
> Still not following you. Are you saying that today we do *not* run
> git-fsck, and therefore a borked repository is not detected, but that
> we could add a call to git-fsck to detect borked repositories, and
> therefore avoid the problems of the autobuilders already having borked
> Git caches ?

Basically, yes, that is what I wanted to say.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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