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Re: Validation of a commit object?

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2006, 08:39 UTC
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On 8/14/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> The reason I ask is I'm working on my (bastard) fast-import program
> for Jon's Mozilla CVS -> GIT conversion effort and I'm taking the
> author and committer lines blind from the Python code.  If the
> Python code gives me a bad line its going to go into the pack that
> way, with that possibly resulting in a totally corrupt repository.

Apart from timestamp, which is used in merge base and rev-list calculations, it does not look like "a totally corrupt repository". "Slightly corrupt", perhaps - you still can work with it, so long the blobs, commits and trees make sense.

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