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Re: Massive repository corruptions

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EWEnrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date
Jul 13, 2010, 10:22 UTC
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* Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > * Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do you know which packfiles are corrupted?  Does 'git index-pack' on
> >> the files reveal anything?
> >
> > git@blackwidow ~/metux/work.git/pack $ git index-pack pack-3b6cbd5dc5f54cf390cfaa479cac6a99d7401375.pack
> > error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect data check)
> > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 37075832: inflate returned -3
> >
> > (that's essentially the same git-gc says)
> 
> What's the size of that .pack file?
Somewhat over 300MB. 

Lowering the packfile size seemed to help. (but I still only can do that for git-repack, not remote transfers)

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