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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	"Mike.lifeguard" <mike.lifeguard@gmail.com>,
	Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:56:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b131003261656h430d77a8q753c6141297e8f86@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7hoyabiv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> Scott, please fix that library on GitHub.  JGit's fsck has a hard
>> failure on these malformed trees, because the leading '0' mode
>> causes the tree to come up with the wrong SHA-1 hash given its
>> logical content.  They shouldn't be created like this.
>
> What is curious is that even though 6407180 (git-fsck-cache: be stricter
> about "tree" objects, 2005-07-27) does talk about zero-padding, it appears
> that we never had a version of git that padded mode in '0' in the entire
> history of write-tree (except that "notes tree" one, but even that didn't
> escape the laboratory).

It's apparently an easy mistake to make.  bup did this for a while
until I added a 'git fsck' to its automated tests :)

The problem is that everything in git works perfectly with these
invalid file modes *except* fsck, and there's rarely a need to run
fsck, so this problem can hide for a long time.

Have fun,

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-26 21:56 Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3 Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-26 22:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-26 22:29   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-26 22:40     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-26 23:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-26 22:59     ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-26 23:05       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-26 23:22         ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-26 23:49           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-03-26 23:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-26 23:56           ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-03-27  0:00             ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-27  1:22               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-27  1:30                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-27  1:34                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-27  1:56                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-27  2:33                       ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-27 12:44                       ` Scott Chacon
2010-03-27 14:21                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-27 19:14                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-27 19:30                             ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-27 19:32                               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-27 19:39                                 ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-27 19:44                                   ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-27 19:57                                     ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-28 17:38                                     ` Sitaram Chamarty
2010-03-28 23:28                                       ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-27 20:13                             ` A Large Angry SCM
2010-03-27 20:16                             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-27 22:16                             ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-27  5:16                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-27 19:20                       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-03-27 20:04                         ` Junio C Hamano

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