Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Perhaps run "fsck" and "status" immediately after copying to make > sure they succeed, or something like that? Hmph, this is me half-being silly, as this "copying an existing one" is meant for testing Git with a large repository, and having to run fsck may add meaningful overhead in addition to the actual copying in the set-up procedure. I do not offhand think of a good solution.