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Re: Something weird is happening...

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Jan 29, 2009, 22:35 UTC
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<20090129223529.GB1465@elte.hu>
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* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
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>> But it still does the connectivity check fully from your refs.  And if 
>> it finds an object that ought to be reachable from your refs that it 
>> hasn't validated, it gives the "missing" warning above.  There is a 
>> check to exclude objects in packs when running "git fsck" without 
>> --full from this warning but I do not see a corresponding exclusion of 
>> objects that were borrowed from your neighbour which we didn't check 
>> either.
>>
>> But that is just a conjecture from a cursory looking at the current 
>> code. I do not remember (or did not know from the beginning) some 
>> details of it. And that is why I asked you if "git fsck --full" reports 
>> it missing in my earlier response to you.
>
> Just tried it, it doesn't.  So I guess things are OK.

hm, it reported missing items here - but maybe i misremembered that. Re-running it currently. (takes quite a while)

	Ingo
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  1. H. Peter AnvinJan 29, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierJan 29, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2009
  5. Ingo MolnarJan 29, 2009
  6. Ingo MolnarJan 29, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2009
  8. H. Peter AnvinJan 29, 2009
  9. Ingo MolnarJan 29, 2009
  10. Ingo MolnarJan 29, 2009
  11. H. Peter AnvinJan 29, 2009
  12. Ingo MolnarJan 29, 2009
  13. René ScharfeJan 29, 2009
  14. Daniel BarkalowJan 29, 2009
  15. merge: fix out-of-bounds memory accessRené Scharfe, Jan 31, 2009
  16. H. Peter AnvinJan 29, 2009
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 29, 2009
  18. Linus TorvaldsJan 29, 2009
  19. 1/2 fsck: HEAD is part of refsJunio C Hamano, Jan 30, 2009
  20. Johannes SixtJan 30, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2009
  22. Johannes SchindelinJan 30, 2009
  23. Nanako ShiraishiJan 31, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2009
  25. 2/2 fsck: check loose objects from alternate object stores by defaultJunio C Hamano, Jan 30, 2009

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