Re: Bad objects error since upgrading GitHub servers to 1.6.1

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>>  - When digging deeper into the ancestry chain of a commit that is already
>>    painted as UNINTERESTING, in order to paint its parents UNINTERESTING,
>>    we barfed if parse_parent() for a parent commit object failed.  We can
>>    ignore such a parent commit object.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to still mark it UNINTERESTING too?
>
>> @@ -480,7 +483,7 @@ static int add_parents_to_list(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit,
>>  			struct commit *p = parent->item;
>>  			parent = parent->next;
>>  			if (parse_commit(p) < 0)
>> -				return -1;
>> +				continue;
>>  			p->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
>>  			if (p->parents)
>>  				mark_parents_uninteresting(p);
>
> IOW, move that
>
> 	p->object.flags |= UNINTERESTING;
>
> to before parse_commit(). That's assuming 'parent' is never NULL, of 
> course.