Re: BUG! missing .idx causes .pack to be removed

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* René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > IIRC, a .pack file is useless without its corresponding .idx file. So
> > the removal of a .pack file makes sense here - to me, at least.
> 
> git-index-pack can rebuild the index for a pack file.  Not sure if it
> should be done automagically, but the file is not completely useless.

ACK. packfiles are completely self-contained - the index files are
only used for lookup and can be created any time (IMHO that's also
done automatically on remote transfers). So removing a packfile,
just because the index is missing, causes an serious data loss.
That's what I'd consider a critical bug!

The correct solution would be either recreating the index
automatically or at least spit out an big-fat warning.


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