From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:07:07 GMT
Subject: Re: corrupt object on git-gc
Message-ID: <20071109190707.GA17864@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711091050230.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:55:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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