From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:26:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808272024160.1624@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828001401.GT26523@spearce.org>
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > >
> > > This was inspired by the data corruption thread started
> > > by J. Bruce Fields. At some point in the thread Linus
> > > pointed out the C Git index-pack isn't as safe as it can
> > > be, and offered a strategy to fix it.
> >
> > I thought it was Nicolas Pitre who offered that strategy?
> > Maybe I was mistaken. ;-)
>
> Sorry about the bad attribution. Going back through the
> archives does say it was you that had the brilliant idea.
Thanks. Now my ego is fully restored. ;-)
Nicolas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-27 21:48 [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-27 21:48 ` [JGIT PATCH 2/2] index-pack: Use fsync to ensure received pack data is on disk Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 0:09 ` [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-28 0:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 0:26 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
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