From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:59:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] autobuild-run: remove only tarballs from download dir In-Reply-To: <20180415223829.55ca00e3@windsurf.numericable.fr> References: <20180413133431.19449-1-ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com> <20180415214257.1e90704a@windsurf.numericable.fr> <20180415194915.GE21958@scaer> <20180415220222.6413547a@windsurf.numericable.fr> <20180415201026.GA13321@scaer> <20180415223829.55ca00e3@windsurf.numericable.fr> Message-ID: <20180415205949.GB13321@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'