From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:18:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in reflog of length 0x2BFF
Message-ID: <xmqqvblrrwxu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141201233515.GV6527@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Christoph Mallon wrote:
>
>> % git rev-parse 'master@{52}'
>> warning: Log for ref refs/heads/master has gap after Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:01 +0000.
>> 0000000000000000000000000000000000000036
>
> Can you say more?  What output did you expect and how does this differ
> from it?
>
> I tried, with git 2.2.0,
>
> 	git init gitbug &&
> 	cd gitbug &&
> 	git commit --allow-empty -m a &&
> 	wget http://tron.yamagi.org/zeug/reflog.bad &&
> 	mv reflog.bad .git/logs/refs/heads/master &&
> 	sha1sum .git/logs/refs/heads/master &&
> 	git rev-parse 'master@{52}'
>
> The output:
>
>  9ffe44715d0e542a60916255f144c74e6760ffd0  .git/logs/refs/heads/master
>  0000000000000000000000000000000000000035
>
> Could you make a test script that illustrates and reproduces the
> problem?  I.e., a patch to a file like t/t1410-reflog.sh, such that
> if I run
>
> 	cd git
> 	make
> 	cd t
> 	./t1410-reflog.sh
>
> then I can reproduce the bug?

Amen to that.  I am getting the same thing.