From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:26 GMT Subject: To graft or not to graft... (Re: Recovering from repository corruption) Message-ID: <20080611232126.GA9054@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: >more corruption by hiding things (ie if you clone a repo with a grafts >file, the result will now have neither the grafts file _nor_ the state >that was hidden by it, so the result is guaranteed to be corrupt). This is kind of confusing. As I understood it from the few shreds of documentation that actually mention the grafts file, the grafts file is *not* being cloned. Therefore, my assumption was that cloning a repository that has a grafts file gives an identical result to cloning the same repository *without* the grafts file present. As I understand it now, the cloning process actually peeks at the grafts file while cloning, and then doesn't copy it. This results in a rather confusingly corrupt clone. I suggest two things: a. That during the cloning process, the grafts file is completely disregarded in any case at first. b. Preferably the grafts file is copied as well (after cloning). I never really understood why the file is not being copied in the first place (anyone care to explain that?). -- Sincerely, Stephen R. van den Berg. Differentiation is an integral part of calculus.