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Re: Cloning from sites with 404 overridden

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 20, 2006, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID
<7v8xr5ld38.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<e5bfff550603192231k7843a741xbf14394bc5e4c57@mail.gmail.com>
"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>> This is totally untested, but maybe something like this?
>
> It works for me. Just some trailing white space warning when applying.

The change only removes the error message without changing any other logic, so if that works for you, I wonder if leaving things as they are is a better option than doing anything short of implementing an AI that tries to pattern-match the "allegedly corrupt file" with "sorry no such page found" in many natural languages.

My test patch makes it impossible to track down the real breakage when an HTTP-reachable repository _does_ have a corrupt object.

So how about doing this instead?
-- >8 --
diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index 8fd9de0..1405c1f 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #define RANGE_HEADER_SIZE 30
 
 static int got_alternates = -1;
+static int corrupt_object_found = 0;
 
 static struct curl_slist *no_pragma_header;
 
@@ -830,6 +831,7 @@ static int fetch_object(struct alt_base 
 				    obj_req->errorstr, obj_req->curl_result,
 				    obj_req->http_code, hex);
 	} else if (obj_req->zret != Z_STREAM_END) {
+		corrupt_object_found++;
 		ret = error("File %s (%s) corrupt", hex, obj_req->url);
 	} else if (memcmp(obj_req->sha1, obj_req->real_sha1, 20)) {
 		ret = error("File %s has bad hash", hex);
@@ -989,5 +991,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	http_cleanup();
 
+	if (corrupt_object_found) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+"Some loose object were found to be corrupt, but they might be just\n"
+"a false '404 Not Found' error message sent with incorrect HTTP\n"
+"status code.  Suggest running git fsck-objects.\n");
+	}
 	return rc;
 }
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  1. Marco CostalbaMar 19, 2006
  2. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 19, 2006
  3. Marco CostalbaMar 19, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2006
  5. Marco CostalbaMar 19, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2006
  7. Marco CostalbaMar 20, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
  9. Marco CostalbaMar 20, 2006
  10. Lukas SandströmMar 20, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisMar 20, 2006
  12. Nick HengeveldMar 20, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2006
  14. Petr BaudisMar 19, 2006
  15. Petr BaudisMar 19, 2006
  16. Marco CostalbaMar 19, 2006
  17. Randal L. SchwartzMar 20, 2006

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