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Re: [PUB]corrupt repos does not return error with `git fsck`

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
May 20, 2015, 18:02 UTC
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$ git clone https://github.com/fmitha/SICL cd SICL $ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 $ git show 12323213123 # just to be sure to have a different error message for non existing objects. fatal: ambiguous argument '12323213123': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

$ mv .git/objects/pack/pack-d56da8c18f5aa915d7fe230efae7315a0101dc19.pack . $ rm .git/objects/pack/pack-d56da8c18f5aa915d7fe230efae7315a0101dc19.idx $ git unpack-objects < pack-d56da8c18f5aa915d7fe230efae7315a0101dc19.pack $ git show 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 fatal: bad object 280c12ab49223c64c6f914944287a7d049cf4dd0 $ ls .git/objects/28/0* .git/objects/28/01fef08b1dccf9725dde919a7373748a046cb7 .git/objects/28/03d8c1cb3275979ff2d8408450844f6a78a70d .git/objects/28/0663a93d702a7fcb0dd36f461397f6b50ba01e .git/objects/28/068e2656dd4bac61050e870712578032af9144 .git/objects/28/074e890d6ff2bb61eb7796bc500b6d8e344ad2 .git/objects/28/08596ac465cf8a819a9b13ad2f855e9a8a3235 .git/objects/28/098184d1ba97453227c18628cdf13087b6bce2 .git/objects/28/0ba19c68b26ee7c799ef8ca09d540a5ad7a5b2 .git/objects/28/0d66213173f0ae7aaae8684f3efcb1f8790792 .git/objects/28/0da35374c32303cbd726bef9847f18d7428d5e

There is no file 28/0c... however.
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  5. John KeepingMay 20, 2015
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