Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Aug 28, 2008, 00:26 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808272024160.1624@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080828001401.GT26523@spearce.org>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > > 
> > >   This was inspired by the data corruption thread started
> > >   by J. Bruce Fields.  At some point in the thread Linus
> > >   pointed out the C Git index-pack isn't as safe as it can
> > >   be, and offered a strategy to fix it.
> > 
> > I thought it was Nicolas Pitre who offered that strategy?
> > Maybe I was mistaken.  ;-)
> 
> Sorry about the bad attribution.  Going back through the
> archives does say it was you that had the brilliant idea.

Thanks.  Now my ego is fully restored.  ;-)

Nicolas