From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad object
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:58:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpqo31fx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422184842.GC9541@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:48:42 -0400")
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
> Just today operations started warning:
>
> error: Could not read 4e69489a0ac11a9b62a25923975bfc370a30eae5
>
> This is Documentation/networking/baycom.txt from
> 518e6540831c69422faecceee8f964bd439ac9d0 (pre-2.6.13), which is easy
> enough to find from another repository and fix the problem.
>
> But I'm curious--how do I find out what pack file that object should be
> in, and what the corruption looks like?
The former you should be able to read from either "verify-pack -v" or
"show-index" output. After finding the offset for the object data in the
pack, a bit of "dd seek=" would be needed to extract the data.
>
> This is the third time I've found corruption in a repository on this
> laptop, so I'm a little suspicious of the hardware. (The second time I
> reported here: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121968278319668&w=2.)
>
> --b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 18:48 bad object J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-22 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-22 21:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-22 23:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
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