From: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 19:13:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PUB]corrupt repos does not return error with `git fsck`
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1505210040570.9343@orwell.homelinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kb9xUZfa9923rrUP1x0T2=KzczmmNyYi5zD30mWKJ81KQ@mail.gmail.com>


On Wed, 20 May 2015, Stefan Beller wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info> wrote:

>> 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.

> Each object is stored at .git/objects/<xz>/<tail> with <xz> being the 
> first 2 characters of the sha1 and the tail the remaining 38 characters 
> of the sha1. I did not draw a conclusion yet, as I needed to run for a 
> meeting.

> So the object you're looking for is not there (stating this as a fact). 
> But why would you expect it to be there? At the time of sending the 
> previous email I tried to do a reverse search "Give me all objects, 
> which reference objectX" but did not succeed yet.

Ok. See my reply to Matthieu Moy for context. I make have been taking too 
much for granted before posting to this list. Maybe I should have asked 
here first.

As I wrote to him, I can reconstruct the original setup if anyone thinks 
it is worthwhile trying to investigate further.

                                                    Regards, Faheem Mitha