Re: Suggestion: "verify/repair" option for 'git gc'

On 14.10.2021 4:19, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> I'd be interested in a copy of it, I've been slowly trying to improve
> these sorts of corruption cases.

Sent.

> I wonder if this and other issues you encountered wouldn't need a full
> "fsck", but merely gc triggering a complete repack.

That sounds slow :( For example, it's going to be a lot of disk write bandwidth. Just doing the verification along with regular gc sounds faster.

> Yes, we still definitely have cases where dealing with this sort of
> thing can be very painful.

With the new remote promisor code, I think that auto-fixing corrupted blobs is easy enough (provided they can be found on any remote) ?