Probably a GIT bug..

Hello,

Testcase: http://temp.thera.be/gitbug.tar
Contents:
gitbug/
gitbug/prep.sh
gitbug/fail.sh
gitbug/init.sh
gitbug/README

#v+ init.sh

#!/bin/bash

export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='test@test.be' export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='gitbug' export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="Mon Apr 21 16:40:08 2008 +0200" export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='gitbug' export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='test@test.be' export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Mon Apr 21 16:40:08 2008 +0200"

rm -rf ./.git rm -f test test2

git init touch test git add test git commit -a -m "first commit"

## prep.sh: #!/bin/bash mkdir .git/objects/a2 chmod a-rwx .git/objects/a2

## fail.sh: #!/bin/bash

touch test2 git add test2 git commit -a -m "second commit"

echo -en "\n\n\nSee the result of git-fsck:\n" git-fsck

#v-

Execution:
#v+
[16:39:14] bla@Vorago ~/my_tmp/gitbug $ source init.sh 
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
Created initial commit 2231f53: first commit
 0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test
[16:39:16] bla@Vorago ~/my_tmp/gitbug $ source prep.sh 
[16:39:17] bla@Vorago ~/my_tmp/gitbug $ source fail.sh 
error: sha1
file /home/bla/my_tmp/gitbug/.git/objects/a2/2c62298732a162ab9aa64c31b24c4c87cf8cd9:
Permission denied

fatal: unable to read destination tree (a12d0088c0e538480a1586a9ac2d5de3b54b2759) Created commit

See the result of git-fsck:
broken link from  commit a12d0088c0e538480a1586a9ac2d5de3b54b2759
              to    tree a22c62298732a162ab9aa64c31b24c4c87cf8cd9
missing tree a22c62298732a162ab9aa64c31b24c4c87cf8cd9
[16:39:19] bla@Vorago ~/my_tmp/gitbug $ 
#v-

As I understand such behaviour shouldn't have place; one can fix it by fixing attributes and then doing git-reset+commit. Maybe with fsck also.

I guess that GIT should check if he can create a tree link before creating a commit.

See you,