From: Valeo de Vries <valeo@valeo.co.cc>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:17:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Massive repository corruptions
Message-ID: <AANLkTil5XgnUqm3hy4OAEBS9-ylUu7rSmKUAQXD7LcHX@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100713053154.GC29392@nibiru.local>

On 13 July 2010 06:31, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * 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...