From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:54:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Garbage in .git directories???
Message-ID: <200509181254.14646.dtor_core@ameritech.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509181009160.26803@g5.osdl.org>

On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:10, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work
> > 
> > and it seems there is some garbage in .git directory:
> >
> > drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?���?E ???#V?C??ſl??E#V?C??;H
> >                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> > The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository.
> > 
> > Is this expected?
> 
> Absolutely not. And I don't see it when I try. What filesystem are you 
> running this on? Looks like something did a "mkdir()" with an 
> uninitialized pointer, but I don't see how that would happen.
> 
> 		Linus
> 

It is ext3 on 2.6.12-rc6.

-- 
Dmitry