From: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:32:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file
Message-ID: <1231317131.8870.471.camel@starfruit>
In-Reply-To: <7vaba3bken.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 00:16 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler@slide.com> writes:
> 
> > Unfortunately it doesn't, what I did notice was this when I did a `git
> > status` in the directory right after untarring:
> >         tyler@grapefruit:~/jburgess_main> git status
> >         #
> >         # ---impressive amount of file names fly by---
> >         # ----snip---
> > ...
> > Basically, somehow Git thinks that *every* file in the repository is
> > deleted at this point.
> 
> That makes me suspect that your .git/index file is corrupt.

Would this be tied to the corrupted pack file issue, or separate.

Either way, how could I verify your assumptions? (i'll be lurking in
#git for a while if you want to interactively help ;))

Cheers
-- 
-R. Tyler Ballance
Slide, Inc.