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Re: [RFC/PATCH] fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checking

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 20, 2014, 09:21 UTC
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<20141020092157.GC12913@peff.net>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:40:22PM +1100, Ben Aveling wrote:
> This seems to have worked. I also had to move away the existing .idx and
> copy in a new one before it was happy.

Sorry if I wasn't clear; you do need to copy the .idx files along with the packfiles (you can regenerate the .idx files from the packfiles on the destination, but they're not that big; it's probably easier just to copy them).

> I'm not sure that what I've done is so different from simply copying the
> other version of the repository - there shouldn't have been anything in the
> corrupt version that wasn't also in the good one. But any rate, it worked.

Right, a valid technique for repairing corruption is to just blow away the original repo entirely and replace it with a good copy. But this is a way of ensuring that no commits are missed, and keeping the original set of refs, config options, and reflogs.

-Peff
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  1. fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checkingJeff King, Sep 23, 2014
  2. Edward ThomsonSep 23, 2014
  3. Jeff KingSep 23, 2014
  4. Ben AvelingOct 12, 2014
  5. Jeff KingOct 14, 2014
  6. Jeff KingOct 16, 2014
  7. Ben AvelingOct 19, 2014
  8. Jeff KingOct 20, 2014

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