From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Garbage in .git directories??? Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:44:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20050919194445.GD18320@pasky.or.cz> References: <200509172141.31591.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <432F0D1B.60303@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 19 21:45:05 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHRZK-0004gF-FA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:44:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932618AbVISTor (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:44:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932619AbVISTor (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:44:47 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:57534 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932618AbVISTor (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:44:47 -0400 Received: (qmail 14074 invoked by uid 2001); 19 Sep 2005 21:44:45 +0200 To: "H. Peter Anvin" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432F0D1B.60303@zytor.com> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:10:19PM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" told me that... > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > >git clone > >rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > >work > > > >and it seems there is some garbage in .git directory: > > > >[dtor@anvil work]$ ls -la .git/ > >total 40 > >drwxrwxr-x 9 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 . > >drwxrwxr-x 3 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 .. > >drwxrwxr-x 2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 branches > >-rw-rw-r-- 1 dtor dtor 58 Sep 17 21:17 description > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 dtor dtor 17 Sep 17 21:17 HEAD -> refs/heads/master > >drwxrwxr-x 2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 hooks > >drwxrwxr-x 2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 info > >drwxr-xr-x 260 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 17:41 objects > >drwxrwxr-x 4 dtor dtor 4096 May 1 19:15 refs > >drwxrwxr-x 2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:28 remotes > >drwxrwxr-x 2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?????E > >???#V?C????l??E#V?C??;H > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository. > > > > FWIW, using cg-clone (using git-core 0.99.6 and cogito 0.14.1) I keep > finding a directory in .git which consists of a single DEL character (\177). Does cg-init produce it too? It really seems that this has to be a bug in git-init-db. If that is the case, could you try temporarily renaming the templates directory? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox