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

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

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 ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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