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

From: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Oct 19, 2014, 12:40 UTC
Message-ID: <5443B136.4060009@optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20141016002021.GA27509@peff.net>

On 16/10/14 11:20, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:46:19AM +1100, Ben Aveling wrote:
>
> I have a corrupt repository, and every time I run fsck, it
> reports one corrupt object, then stops.
> Corrupt how? Bit-corruption, or a malformed object?

Bit-corruption, in multiple places.

> If you have a non-corrupted version of the repository, the simplest 
> thing is to just pack it, copy the resulting packfile to the broken 
> repository (again, using "cp" or "rsync" and not git), and then repack 
> there.

This seems to have worked. I also had to move away the existing .idx and copy in a new one before it was happy.

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.

Thanks, Ben