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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:21:51 -0500 (EST)
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 21:09 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > I've tarred one of the repositories that had it in a reproducible
> > state
> > 
> > That is wonderful.
> > 
> > > so I can create a build and extract the tar and run against that to
> > > verify any patches anybody might have, but unfortunately at 7GB of
> > > company code and assets, I can't exactly share ;)
> > 
> > First step is to understand what is going on.  Only then could reliable 
> > patches be made.
> 
> If you want to point me in the right direction, I have a few hours to
> kill this evening and fscking around with gdb(1) and printf() just might
> be some of my favorite things</sarcasm> ;)

Heh.  ;-)

To start with, a simple log of what you need to do to reproduce the 
issue would be nice.  Just do

	script /tmp/foo

then reproduce the issue and exit, after which I'd be interrested in the 
content of /tmp/foo.


Nicolas