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Re: Linus kernel tree corrupt?

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jul 10, 2005, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20050710152309.GE24249@pasky.ji.cz>
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<42D01174.4050501@zytor.com>

Dear diary, on Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:03:32PM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> >
> >Yes, please do. I deprecated rsync a day before Linus "broke" http-pull.
> >It's un-deprecated again for now in the latest Cogito.
> >
> 
> Presumably for packed repos you want to drop the --ignore-existing 
> --whole-file options I assume?

It _is_ unsafe for individual objects, and your packfile will be corrupt if you break it in the middle and not have --whole-file turned on, I assume. It would be ideal if we could make rsync allow resuming download of the file if interrupted, but not under the final name but in that hidden file it uses.

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> sent 339 bytes  received 1802 bytes  4282.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 410  speedup is 0.19
> Missing object of tag v2.6.11... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.11-tree... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12-rc2... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12-rc3... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12-rc4... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12-rc5... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.12-rc6... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.13-rc1... different source (obsolete tag?)
> Missing object of tag v2.6.13-rc2... different source (obsolete tag?)
> New branch: 0109fd37046de64e8459f8c4f4706df9ac7cc82c
> Cloned (origin 
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
> available as branch "origin")
> Cloned to ./ (origin 
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
> available as branch "origin")
> 
> Is the "missing objects" thing spurious?
Yes, already fixed. Will release 0.12.1 soon.
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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  1. Jon SmirlJul 8, 2005
  2. Tony LuckJul 8, 2005
  3. Russell KingJul 9, 2005
  4. Petr BaudisJul 9, 2005
  5. H. Peter AnvinJul 9, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisJul 10, 2005
  7. H. Peter AnvinJul 10, 2005

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