From: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Recovering from repository corruption
Message-ID: <6dbd4d000806101328k1fc913f2ia55c3e44273ec5ad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806101317100.3101@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 16:23, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Denis Bueno wrote:
>>
>> You're onto something:
>>
>> [dorothy.local /tmp <Tue Jun 10> <16:02:08>]
>> tmp[176] > git clone file:///Volumes/work/identity.fb/
>
> [ successful ]
>
> Hmm. Scary. That should *not* have been successful with a corrupt repo.
>
> Unless you have done a .grafts file to hide the corruption, or something
> like that?

I intended to do that, yes, and I think I was successful.  (I only say
I "intended to" --- instead of "I did" --- because I read the
documentation for the grafts file elsewhere on this list, and not in
some more "blessed" location.)

> Have you saved away the original corrupt repo (the whole .git directory as
> a tar-ball, for example)? And is the data public and non-embarrassing
> enough so that you could make it available for some post-corruption
> analysis? Even if we cannot help recover it, real-life corruption is
> always interesting to see if only as a test-case to make sure that git
> notices it as quickly as possible.

I do have bunches of personal information in the repo, unfortunately.
The particular *file* involved in the corruption, however, is fine for
all to view.  Is that useful?


-- 
                              Denis