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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: Edward Thomson <ethomson@edwardthomson.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checking
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:21:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141020092157.GC12913@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5443B136.4060009@optusnet.com.au>

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:40:22PM +1100, Ben Aveling wrote:

> This seems to have worked. I also had to move away the existing .idx and
> copy in a new one before it was happy.

Sorry if I wasn't clear; you do need to copy the .idx files along with
the packfiles (you can regenerate the .idx files from the packfiles on
the destination, but they're not that big; it's probably easier just to
copy them).

> I'm not sure that what I've done is so different from simply copying the
> other version of the repository - there shouldn't have been anything in the
> corrupt version that wasn't also in the good one. But any rate, it worked.

Right, a valid technique for repairing corruption is to just blow away
the original repo entirely and replace it with a good copy. But this is a
way of ensuring that no commits are missed, and keeping the original set
of refs, config options, and reflogs.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-23 15:47 [RFC/PATCH] fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checking Jeff King
2014-09-23 16:23 ` Edward Thomson
2014-09-23 16:30   ` Jeff King
2014-10-12 22:37     ` Ben Aveling
2014-10-14  8:21       ` Jeff King
     [not found]         ` <543F074B.2050907@optusnet.com.au>
2014-10-16  0:20           ` Jeff King
2014-10-19 12:40             ` Ben Aveling
2014-10-20  9:21               ` Jeff King [this message]

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