From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:44:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1
Message-ID: <20081225114443.GD6115@zakalwe.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7v7i5odams.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with
>   corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are
>   available elsewhere.

Has anyone written a summary of how Git's redundancy operates?

* What would be the probability for a single bit flip to corrupt the 
repository?

* And what is the situation where a single bit flip can not corrupt the 
database?

* When (which commands/functions) is error detection done?

Heikki