Re: My git repo is broken, how to fix it ?

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Mar 22, 2007, 17:12 UTC
Message-ID: <4602B917.5C2912F4@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703220924590.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Yeehaa! I think I'm on the right trail.
> 
> Git people: do this:
> 
>         yum install ElectricFence
> 
> (or similar, apt-get, whatever), and then apply this patch, and do
> 
>         make test
> 
> and it will fail in "git-apply"! Which (having read Alexander's corruption
> sequence once more) must have been what corrupted things for Alexander
> too!

Here is a repo, created with the MinGW port. It has a corrupted object, that you can see even on Linux with just

$ git show :one

It was created with an obviously bogus "git apply" on Windows. To restore the correct object, just do this on Linux:

$ git read-tree --reset -u HEAD $ git apply --index patch.file

Now "git show :one" gives you the correct one.

HTH, -- Hannes