Fatal: <hash> is corrupted can be caused by wrong permissions

Fatal: <hash> is corrupted can be caused by wrong permissions

[R. David Murray]

A quick search of your mailing list didn't turn up any good hits (not the most
searchable terms and gmane search doesn't seem to support phrases), so I'm
reporting this.

On git 1.7.1 I ran into the Fatal corruption error in one of my projects.  For
reasons that are irrelevant I was operating on the repo as user X, a member of
group Z, but the files were all owned by Y:Z, with (I thought) -rw-rw---
permissions.  After a bunch of head banging I finally figured out that the
Fatal error wasn't because the object files were corrupted, but because three
objects (for reasons unknown to me that are probably lost in the early history
of the setup of this particular repo...one of the blobs was the first commit)
were -rw-----.  So it seems to me that the error message could be improved to
indicate that the reason the object couldn't be used was a permission error.
That's  a different thing from the contents being corrupted.

--David

Re: Fatal: <hash> is corrupted can be caused by wrong permissions

[Matthieu Moy]

"R. David Murray" <rdmurray@bitdance.com> writes:

> On git 1.7.1 I ran into the Fatal corruption error in one of my projects.  For
> reasons that are irrelevant I was operating on the repo as user X, a member of
> group Z, but the files were all owned by Y:Z, with (I thought) -rw-rw---
> permissions.  After a bunch of head banging I finally figured out that the
> Fatal error wasn't because the object files were corrupted, but because three
> objects (for reasons unknown to me that are probably lost in the early history
> of the setup of this particular repo...one of the blobs was the first commit)
> were -rw-----.

I can reproduce with Git 1.7.10 by doing a chmod 0 on some object files,
but recent Git's produce

Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
fatal: failed to read object ab2e06e74d922268fbff8d219dad9eee63786947: Permission denied

So I guess this has already been fixed :-).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: Fatal: <hash> is corrupted can be caused by wrong permissions

[Jeff King]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> I can reproduce with Git 1.7.10 by doing a chmod 0 on some object files,
> but recent Git's produce
> 
> Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
> fatal: failed to read object ab2e06e74d922268fbff8d219dad9eee63786947: Permission denied
> 
> So I guess this has already been fixed :-).

Probably d6c8a05 (open_sha1_file: report "most interesting" errno,
2014-05-15). The example in the commit message even uses "chmod 0". :)

It's in v2.0.1.

-Peff