From: Attila Csosz Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 03:52:23 GMT Subject: Re: Git bug report - disk errors on Windows after push Message-ID: In-Reply-To: I've experienced the problem at least 3 different external disk. I'm not using cloud syncing service (e.g., Dropbox or OneDrive) for git. Attila On 4/18/2022 19:37, brian m. carlson wrote: > Hey, > > On 2022-04-18 at 07:47:07, Attila Csosz wrote: >> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! >> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. >> >> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) >> Pushing to a directory directly. >> >> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) >> Good behavior >> >> What happened instead? (Actual behavior) >> Disk errors. After pushing to a directory (my origin field is C:\Work for >> example) the git repository will be corrupted. >> Moreover causing disk errors not only in the target git bare repository. >> I've loosed some other files. >> Cannot be reproduced exactly. However I have decided to report this problem. >> I've experienced this problem for several years. > There's nothing that Git should be able to do as a normal operating > system that causes disk errors. If you're seeing those kinds of errors, > the likelihood is that your disk is bad and you need to replace it. > > Do note that if you're storing your data in a directory managed by a > cloud syncing service (e.g., Dropbox or OneDrive), then it is known that > those file systems corrupt Git repositories and you shouldn't use them > with Git. That's due to the way they sync data. > > However, if this is a regular file system (e.g., NTFS), then Git > shouldn't be able to cause disk problems, and if it could, that would be > a serious defect in Windows, so it's almost certainly going to be a > hardware problem.