Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yeehaa! I think I'm on the right trail. > > Git people: do this: > > yum install ElectricFence > > (or similar, apt-get, whatever), and then apply this patch, and do > > make test > > and it will fail in "git-apply"! Which (having read Alexander's corruption > sequence once more) must have been what corrupted things for Alexander > too! Here is a repo, created with the MinGW port. It has a corrupted object, that you can see even on Linux with just $ git show :one It was created with an obviously bogus "git apply" on Windows. To restore the correct object, just do this on Linux: $ git read-tree --reset -u HEAD $ git apply --index patch.file Now "git show :one" gives you the correct one. HTH, -- Hannes
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