Re: Garbage in .git directories???

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 18, 2005, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509181009160.26803@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509172141.31591.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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> git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work
> 
> and it seems there is some garbage in .git directory:
>
> drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 17 21:17 V?Cl?���?E ???#V?C??ſl??E#V?C??;H
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> The similar garbage(?) shows when I clone git's repository.
> 
> Is this expected?

Absolutely not. And I don't see it when I try. What filesystem are you running this on? Looks like something did a "mkdir()" with an uninitialized pointer, but I don't see how that would happen.

		Linus