From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:47:05 GMT Subject: Re: pack corruption post-mortem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20131017003546.GA12439@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:41:16AM -0600, Martin Fick wrote: > >> I have nightmares about this sort of thing every now and >> then, and we even experience some corruption here and there >> that needs to be fixed (mainly missing objects when we toy >> with different git repack arguments). I cannot help but >> wonder, how we can improve git further to either help >> diagnose or even fix some of these problems? More inline >> below... > > In general, I don't think we know enough about patterns of recovery > corruption to say which commands would definitely be worth implementing. > Part of the reason I wrote this up is to document this one case. But > this is the first time in 7 years of git usage that I've had to do this. > So I'd feel a little bit better about sinking time into it after seeing > a few more cases and realizing where the patterns are. There was one area in our Documentation/ set we used to use to keep this kind of message almost as-is; perhaps this message fits there?