From: Faheem Mitha Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 18:24:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PUB]corrupt repos does not return error with `git fsck` Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Stefan, Thank you for the reply, but I don't follow what conclusion you are drawing, if any. On Wed, 20 May 2015, Stefan Beller wrote: > $ 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. So, is the repos corrupt or not? Also, I don't understand why you say There is no file 28/0c... however. Why would you expect there to be? I don't see it mentioned in that list. I apologise for my ignorance. I don't really know anything about git. I just happened to encounter this error. Regards, Faheem Mitha