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Re: Massive repository corruptions

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Jul 13, 2010, 10:17 UTC
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On 13 July 2010 06:31, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
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> * Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> What's strange:
>
> when copying pack files from another machine to this box and
> run git index-pack there, it fails with the same error.
>
> also: pushing into a new (bare) repo sometimes fails with
> inflate errors, sometimes succeeds but leaves an broken packfile.

The pack files you copied over from another machine, were they sane (i.e. non-corrupt)? If so, that perhaps smells like your hard drive could be on its last legs...

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