From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:10:35 GMT Subject: Re: Garbage in .git directories??? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200509172141.31591.dtor_core@ameritech.net> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > 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