Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702141722410.1757@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <17875.33204.413186.355557@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> WAAAAAIAMINIT ... I think I see it:
> 
> % perl -pi -e 's/.*\$Id.*//sx' $(xgrep -l '[$]Id')
> 
> Could I have corrupted the pack file?  I'll bet $50 I did:
> 
> % [yet another clone]
> % xgrep -l '[$]Id'
> ./.git/objects/pack/pack-23d1a9af78b4b78d1f3750cf70f83cb91a20ba64.pack
> [...]
> 
> %!@#$&$%(@@@!!!

But...... your pack file is read-only, isn't it?

Is perl -i so bad to overwrite even read only files?

Nicolas

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