From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:46:33 GMT
Subject: Re: rogue tree objects, how to diagnose?
Message-ID: <20090301034632.GA318@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090228.194454.05711858.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:44:54PM -0800, David Miller wrote:

> > "bad object" is about an object that did not parse correctly, as opposed
> > to one that is missing. So it's possible that your repository is
> > corrupted.
> 
> I see.
> 
> I GC and repack my local repos a lot, maybe it happened during
> one of those.
> 
> Thanks a lot Jeff, I'll try to fix the corruption using the
> suggestions you gave me.

If it is real corruption, you might want to save a copy of the
repository. I think Linus and Nicolas like to pick apart corruption to
figure out if it is a git bug or a disk failure.

-Peff