Re: Public repro case! Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allow writing loose objects that are corrupted in a pack file

From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 02:21 UTC
Message-ID: <885649360901071821t2ea481b5k83ab800f6aeb897@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071644330.3283@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Can you cnfirm that your "reproducible" case starts working with that
> addition to your ~/.gitconfig? If so, the solution is pretty simple: we
> should just lower the default pack windowsize.

Umm... isn't that more of a workaround than a solution? I.e., if you lower the default pack windowsize, couldn't the corruption still happen under the right conditions?

James

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