From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:17:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] duplicate objects in packfiles
Message-ID: <xmqq38q2u1si.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130821204955.GA28025@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Which leaves the open question: should the default for index-pack flip
> to reject duplicates rather than allow?

I'd say so.

In am emergency, people with broken packfiles can feed them to
unpack-objects ;-)

More seriously, an alternative emergency mode may be an option to
unpack-objects that does not unpack objects but streams to a new
pack or something to resurret the objects that are salvageable from
a corrupt packfile.