From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:55:40 GMT
Subject: Re: New repo quickly corrupted
Message-ID: <7vejer41ib.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <31e9dd080711151350u6c2ae40foc7c05e59496260fa@mail.gmail.com>

"Jason Sewall" <jasonsewall@gmail.com> writes:

> find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} +
> git commit -a --amend
> [accept same message]
> git fsck
> [same error message as above]
>
> I just built my git today, unmodified:
> git version 1.5.3.5.721.g039b
>
> What's going on?

Carelessness is what is going on.

Notice how nicely your "find . -type f -exec dos2unix {}" goes
down to .git/objects and eats your loose objects

You probably wanted to do

	git ls-files | xargs dos2unix

instead.