Something weird is happening...

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2009, 06:24 UTC
Message-ID: <49814BA4.6030705@zytor.com>

I was investigating a problem that Ingo Molnar reported on the linux-2.6-tip.git repository on kernel.org. Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce his problem (which is a problem in itself) but I did run into another oddity:

: hera 4 ; git fsck

[lots of dangling commits deleted] missing blob af0e01d4c663a101f48614e40d006ed6272d5c36

: hera 5 ; git cat-file blob af0e01d4c663a101f48614e40d006ed6272d5c36
/*
 *  debugfs.h - a tiny little debug file system
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
 *  Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Inc.
 *
[... rest of blob deleted ...]

Okay, what is going on here?

Since git 1.6.1.1 just got installed on kernel.org, this phenomenon (and hopefully Ingo's problem, too) maybe has something to do with this new version?

	-hpa

-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.