Re: Recovering from repository corruption

From: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 10, 2008, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <6dbd4d000806101422j39709906x1b4b03b82b504e62@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806101403080.3101@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 17:09, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> No, almost all the interest is basically in how the whole repo ties
> together. The individual corrupt files may be interesting, though, ie from
> your original report:
>
>    error: 320bd6e82267b71dd2ca7043ea3f61dbbca16109: object corrupt or missing
>    error: 4d0be2816d5eea5ae2b40990235e2225c1715927: object corrupt or missing
>
> then *if* you have the files
>
>        .git/objects/32/0bd6e82267b71dd2ca7043ea3f61dbbca16109
>        .git/objects/4d/0be2816d5eea5ae2b40990235e2225c1715927
>
> then those two files are interesting in themselves (most likely they are
> not there at all, or are zero-sized, but if you have them, please post
> them).

They are attached, and they are not zero-sized.

> And as this was a result of a real filesystem crash, it *is* possible that
> you have something in the /lost+found directory for that filesystem. If
> so, those missing files may be found there.

I checked; no such luck.

-- 
                              Denis