On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:58:42PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Just today operations started warning: > > > > error: Could not read 4e69489a0ac11a9b62a25923975bfc370a30eae5 > > > > This is Documentation/networking/baycom.txt from > > 518e6540831c69422faecceee8f964bd439ac9d0 (pre-2.6.13), which is easy > > enough to find from another repository and fix the problem. > > > > But I'm curious--how do I find out what pack file that object should be > > in, and what the corruption looks like? > > The former you should be able to read from either "verify-pack -v" or > "show-index" output. Thanks. So: bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-691dbdb94f881bc07a0befa45f288466bde6207b error: Packfile index for .git/objects/pack/pack-691dbdb94f881bc07a0befa45f288466bde6207b.pack SHA1 mismatch error: packed 000000e0199ffeffffffd143feffd143feff00c0 from .git/objects/pack/pack-691dbdb94f881bc07a0befa45f288466bde6207b.pack is corrupt .git/objects/pack/pack-691dbdb94f881bc07a0befa45f288466bde6207b.pack: bad I don't have another copy of the pack 691dbdb94.... I guess I could run git-unpack-objects and see what it produces for the bad blob? --b. > After finding the offset for the object data in the > pack, a bit of "dd seek=" would be needed to extract the data. > > > > > This is the third time I've found corruption in a repository on this > > laptop, so I'm a little suspicious of the hardware. (The second time I > > reported here: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=121968278319668&w=2.) > > > > --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html