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Re: git fsck messages - what to do about it?

Subject: Re: git fsck messages - what to do about it?

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2 messages between Sep 16, 2005 and Oct 31, 2005.

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Horst von Brand· Sep 16, 2005, 19:37 UTC · lore

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

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> When running git fsck I get some messages:
> 
> -> git-fsck-cache --unreachable $(cat .git/HEAD .git/refs/heads/*)
> unreachable commit 08cf4121ad704faa5ae7c7ae7b3dca4476ef2770
> unreachable tree 29a4c18afd958cc6cee938f0fe7fa59764418097

[...]

> I have to admit that I don't know what to do next...
> 
> a) I understand that these  messages  are  indications  of  problems,
>    right? What can I do to clean this up?

One of the nits I'd like to pick is that git-fsck does only check, not (like its filesystem counterparts) fix the problems it finds.

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Horst von Brand· Oct 31, 2005, 03:21 UTC · lore

Re: GIT 0.99.9

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> In message <7vvezesyhi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> you wrote:
> > I hate it when somebody tells me "it works for me", but I cannot
> > help you here, sorry.  I'm no rpm expert and the "make rpm" rule
> > seems to work for me.

> Which environment (Linux distribution) did you test this on? I  tried
> Fedora  Core  2  and  4,  both  with  the same result. I get the same
> problem when building from the git source  tree  or  when  using  the
> source RPM.

In Fedora rawhide it works (I've got asciidoc installed, and git locally in my account).

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