Re: corrupt object on git-gc

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:41:05PM -0500, Yossi Leybovich wrote:
> What I do notice is that this commit involve few files. most of the
> file the commit generate the right next SHA1
> only for one file its generate broken SHA1
> 
> From the git show <commit> I can see that the file which end up
> corrupted is actually being totaly remove from
> 
> diff --git a/SymmK/St.c b/SymmK/St.c
> index 308806c..4b9458b 100755
> --- a/SymmK/St.c
> +++ b/SymmK/St.c
> @@ -1,1535 +0,0 @@
> -MODULE_ALIAS(m_st);
> -
> -#include <errno.h>
> -#include <string.h>
> -#include <stdarg.h>
> -#include <sys/types.h>
> -#include <sys/time.h>
> -#include "ib_global_init.h"
> ....
> .....
> ....
> 
> 
> While I tried to delete the whole file and I did not get the right SHA1
> Is this soud familiar to some one ?
> maybe its releated to issue with some kind of white character I cant see.

Because the blob is corrupted, git show can't display the correct diff.
You have to guess it by yourself ! The best you can do is look at the
diff for this file between its previous version and the one just after
the corrupted version.

Mike