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Re: corrupt object on git-gc

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 19:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20071109190707.GA17864@glandium.org>
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0711091050230.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:55:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Yossi Leybovich wrote:
> >
> > What interesting is the second part of the experiment
> > I tried to apply the same commit on this file and it leaded to different SHA1
> 
> Eh. That commit was basically corrupt, because the blob had gotten 
> removed. I don't even understand how git diff-tree gave a diff with that 
> file at all (side note: I'd also suggest you just use "git show <commit>" 
> instead of that complex and _really_ old git-diff-tree incantation).
> 
> So no, you didn't "apply the same commit". 
> 
> But if you have the diff somewhere (perhaps email archive? you sent it to 
> somebody?) or you can re-create it exactly, then..

Or maybe just from memory, by looking at the diff between the previous version and the next version of the file.

Mike
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Message 18 of 20 in “Re: corrupt object on git-gc”
  1. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  2. Andreas EricssonNov 9, 2007
  3. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtNov 9, 2007
  5. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  6. Johannes SixtNov 9, 2007
  7. Nicolas PitreNov 9, 2007
  8. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  9. Nicolas PitreNov 9, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsNov 9, 2007
  11. add a howto document about corrupted blob recoveryNicolas Pitre, Nov 9, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 9, 2007
  13. J. Bruce FieldsNov 26, 2007
  14. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsNov 9, 2007
  16. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  17. Linus TorvaldsNov 9, 2007
  18. Mike HommeyNov 9, 2007
  19. Yossi LeybovichNov 9, 2007
  20. Mike HommeyNov 9, 2007

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