From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:10:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Garbage in .git directories???
Message-ID: <432F0D1B.60303@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <200509172141.31591.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work
> 
> and it seems there is some garbage in .git directory:
> 
> [dtor@anvil work]$ ls -la .git/
> total 40
> drwxrwxr-x    9 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 .
> drwxrwxr-x    3 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 ..
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 branches
> -rw-rw-r--    1 dtor dtor   58 Sep 17 21:17 description
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 dtor dtor   17 Sep 17 21:17 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 hooks
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 info
> drwxr-xr-x  260 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 17:41 objects
> drwxrwxr-x    4 dtor dtor 4096 May  1 19:15 refs
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:28 remotes
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?�?E ???#V?C??ſl??E#V?C??;H
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository.
> 

FWIW, using cg-clone (using git-core 0.99.6 and cogito 0.14.1) I keep 
finding a directory in .git which consists of a single DEL character (\177).

	-hpa