This one has me scratching my head: The object file name being reported below in t1450, subtest 2 is corrupt, but I can't figure out why the script might be generating this condition - there's nothing apparent, but it looks like the git commit -m C step is reporting or using a bad name. This breakage was not present in 2.8.5 (now at 7234152 (2.13.5) and is persistent (i.e. always happens). This is the only test in all of git where I have observed this particular situation. Adding set -x to test_commit is unrevealing. The git fsck in this test is never executed because the test_commit fails with a non-zero git commit completion code. There is no rn---- (actual r n 252 252 252 252) in the objects directory - even the 'rn' does not correspond to anything.. I am suspecting an unterminated string that ran into freed memory somewhere, but that's speculative. Does anyone have a perspective on this - was it subsequently fixed? Thanks, Randall Initialized empty Git repository in /home/git/git/t/trash directory.t1450-fsck/another/.git/ error: object directory /home/git/git/t/trash directory.t1450-fsck/another/.git/objects/rn---- does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. [master (root-commit) 1aac250] C Author: A U Thor <author@xxxxxxxxxxx> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 fileC error: object directory /home/git/git/t/trash directory.t1450-fsck/another/.git/objects/rn---- does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. --- empty 2018-01-11 13:57:30 +0000 +++ actual 2018-01-11 13:57:40 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +error: object directory /home/git/git/t/trash directory.t1450-fsck/another/.git/objects/rn---- does not exist; check .git/objects/info/alternates. not ok 2 - loose objects borrowed from alternate are not missing # # mkdir another && # ( # cd another && # git init && # echo ../../../.git/objects >.git/objects/info/alternates && # test_commit C fileC one && # git fsck --no-dangling >../actual 2>&1 # ) && # test_cmp empty actual # Ls -l of the objects directory: drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 . drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 .. drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 13 drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 56 drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 bd drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 c9 drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 f7 drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 info drwxrwxr-x 1 randall ITUGLIB 4096 Jan 11 08:26 pack from find: ./13 ./13/4756353796a5439d93586be27999eea3807a34 ./56 ./56/26abf0f72e58d7a153368ba57db4c673c0e171 ./bd ./bd/04fbdc74c1ad468ee1cc86d49860490ab3e6c7 ./c9 ./c9/145d6720f85544cc4bb6009a2e541660aa156b ./c9/176b0dd1a95c80ad8de21784b1eeffd3681f49 ./f7 ./f7/19efd430d52bcfc8566a43b2eb655688d38871 ./info ./pack
