Re: [Not a] [Bug] Gitweb corrupting files?

From: Severin Gehwolf <jerboaa@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2011, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinY8_maXxP_19hiugiNck=2HELZmurERgwry5H0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3hbdeatgn.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

Show 34 quoted lines

> Severin Gehwolf <jerboaa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It appears that Gitweb corrupts files when it is being used for
>> creating compressed tarballs of sources.
>
> E.g. http://egit.eclipse.org/w/?p=egit.git;a=snapshot;h=6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741;sf=tbz2
> error in egit/org.eclipse.egit.ui/src/org/eclipse/egit/ui/internal/dialogs/BranchSelectionDialog.java
>
>> A more precise description of the behaviour I'm experiencing is here:
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317882
>
> Couldn't you post summary of the above here?
>
>> Unfortunately I have no knowledge about the version in use at eclipse.org.
>
> It's git and gitweb version 1.6.4.4.
>
>
> From original bugreport:
>
>   And it built fine. Then, I tried checking out sources from command line using
>   the git client:
>
>   git clone git://egit.eclipse.org/egit.git egit
>   cd egit
>
>   git checkout 6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741
>   cd ..
>   tar -cjf egit_test.tar.bz2 egit
>
> This should be
>
> $ git archive --format=tar 6b528445c3e543688b990e0a631c5f0238b02741 |
>  bzip2 > egit_test.tar.bz2

I did some digging and it looks like somehow those files are indeed corrupt in the Git repo and it's not a Git or gitweb problem.

Thanks for responding!

--Severin