From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:40:34 GMT
Subject: Re: rogue tree objects, how to diagnose?
Message-ID: <7vvdqtagpp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090228.215752.122159841.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> Indeed I have some serious corruption in my pack file.

Just a sanity check; did you run verify-pack on each packfile to validate
that suspicion?

> I've put this .git dir up at:
>
> 	http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/netnext26_git.tar.gz
>
> if anyone wants to have a look.
>
> davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-next-2.6$ git fsck --full
> error: d7d82ec12e618a3152a82f7fbd459ad285403740: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: 95381186c4ef9d69f56bb6a9f7334ebe81dd023c: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: 6bea4ad565fff638d396298cb6ee7ad6a31ca252: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: 3c8b516f2a9634410f6c3a0ee639627d7c4a83d2: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: 11f0695e84bc3f83a6eea0d6fb0af2789de351ef: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: 7b3c81544c3117201c160af43fa983d68c614e3d: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree
> error: c9ee57c5c20c3b7a2d7784a4172aef8b34c3a844: invalid sha1 pointer in cache-tree

These may only indicate that your .git/index is corrupt but the object
database may still be good.

We fixed an incorrect "missing object" diagnosis when your repository
borrows objects from another repository via the alternates mechanism
(check if .git/objects/info/alternates refers to another repository)
fairly recently.  "Missing objects" could be false alarms.