Re: is this data corruption?

From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 1, 2023, 04:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8sJo8mE5V8_3eGj3miirNOJfQGsDH+=7HmSrwvLC=Ch3w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlemmhp97.fsf@gitster.g>

hi,

thanks for reading/thinking.

> Sorry, but I do not see any "-" versions in the above.  Simple and

minimum reproduction recipe would be useful for the list to help.

the - versions are identical. as i wrote, there are 2 - versions in addition. i didn't want to make a pointlessly long email.

it would be great if i could provide a reproduction recipe. i don't know how i couold do that in this case. for example, when i try to pare down the repo and make private things obscured, i run into the proble that when i do staging, things change around, thus erasing that particular bug. and other stuff like my limited knowledge of git.

i'm afraid i am stuck with hoping for other types of solutions like "i've seen this before" or "that's not possuble unless..."or something a priori like that. but if you have an idea of how to create a minimal repro in less than a week, let me know.

On 12/31/22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> the problem that seems like data corruption is that a few lines appear
>> twice as - and once as +.  but in the current version of the files,
>> those lines exist only once.  here are the lines.  there are 2 -
>> versions and one + version:
>>
>> +***************** REF bigpart is a partition
>> +biglike and homelike are distracting nonsense i think except
>> +to describe inferior filesets.  anomalous subset of home
>> +might be called homelike or so.
>
> Sorry, but I do not see any "-" versions in the above.  Simple and
> minimum reproduction recipe would be useful for the list to help.
>
> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
>
> Thanks.
>

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