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Re: Recovering from repository corruption

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2008, 22:52 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> Ahh, ok. Yes, we should probably re-think our 'grafts' file thing, or at 
> least not document it, because it's actually a wondeful way to just cause 
> more corruption by hiding things (ie if you clone a repo with a grafts 
> file, the result will now have neither the grafts file _nor_ the state 
> that was hidden by it, so the result is guaranteed to be corrupt).

"Graft and then clone" will not make the copied repository Ok. You need to propagate the graft in some other way.

However, "Graft and then filter-branch" is a way to hide and get rid of the the broken thing in history etched in the objects. After that the repository itself and a clone from it will not need the graft. So I'd rather argue we should document it _differently_ (or just _better_) than not document it.

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  1. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  3. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  5. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  7. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  9. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  11. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  13. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  14. TarmiganJun 10, 2008
  15. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  16. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  17. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  18. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2008
  19. Linus TorvaldsJun 11, 2008
  20. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2008
  21. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2008
  23. To graft or not to graft... (Re: Recovering from repository corruption)Stephen R. van den Berg, Jun 11, 2008
  24. Jakub NarebskiJun 11, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsJun 11, 2008
  26. Johan HerlandJun 12, 2008
  27. Jeff KingJun 12, 2008
  28. Johan HerlandJun 12, 2008
  29. Stephen R. van den BergJun 12, 2008
  30. Nicolas PitreJun 10, 2008
  31. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008

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