Re: [PATCH] Fix git-fast-export for zero-sized blobs

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712111719380.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20071211220128.GA19857@steel.home>

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin-fast-export.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Nicolas Pitre, Tue, Dec 11, 2007 21:27:33 +0100:
> > Simply doing something like:
> > 
> > $ git fast-export --all > /dev/null
> > 
> > results in:
> > 
> > fatal: Could not write blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
> > 
> 
> I get this for my git repo:
> 
> 	$ git fast-export --all >/dev/null
> 	fatal: Could not write blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
> 	$ git cat-file blob e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 |wc -c
> 	0
> 
> Writing a zero-size blob will surely returns 0.

Indeed.

/me looking at too many piece of code at the same time

Nicolas