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Re: What's going on here? Bad repo, no error locally?

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JDJohn M. Dlugosz <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com>
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Apr 22, 2009, 04:37 UTC
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Bryan Donlan wrote:
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> Extract the object on developer B's workstation:
> git cat-file blob <object ID>  > blob.dat
> 
> Copy it to upstream, then do:
> git hash-object -w blob.dat
> 
> If all goes well, hash-object will give you back the blob's ID, and
> the repository will fsck cleanly again.
Thanks, I was looking through the manual for that but wasn't sure how to put it together.

But, what could be wrong with B's repo that makes this happen repetetly? I assumed it was network SNAFU, but after restoring the upstream repo, his push did it again.

--John
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