Re: Garbage in .git directories???

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20050919194445.GD18320@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <432F0D1B.60303@zytor.com>

Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:10:19PM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...

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> 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:
> >
> >[dtor@anvil work]$ ls -la .git/
> >total 40
> >drwxrwxr-x    9 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 .
> >drwxrwxr-x    3 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 ..
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 branches
> >-rw-rw-r--    1 dtor dtor   58 Sep 17 21:17 description
> >lrwxrwxrwx    1 dtor dtor   17 Sep 17 21:17 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 hooks
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 info
> >drwxr-xr-x  260 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 17:41 objects
> >drwxrwxr-x    4 dtor dtor 4096 May  1 19:15 refs
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:28 remotes
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?????E 
> >???#V?C????l??E#V?C??;H
> >                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository.
> >
> 
> FWIW, using cg-clone (using git-core 0.99.6 and cogito 0.14.1) I keep 
> finding a directory in .git which consists of a single DEL character (\177).

Does cg-init produce it too? It really seems that this has to be a bug in git-init-db. If that is the case, could you try temporarily renaming the templates directory?

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