of course i am still hoping, if possible,for generic adice on repairing a repo, detecting a bug, whether it is a bug, what looks curiously strange, maybe some more questions like the previous one about what does --cached say, what does --histogram and --patience do, etc., any of this whether or not a repro is possible. will repro if possible just seems impossible. On 12/31/22, Samuel Wales <samologist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi, > > thanks for reading/thinking. > >> Sorry, but I do not see any "-" versions in the above. Simple and > minimum reproduction recipe would be useful for the list to help. > > the - versions are identical. as i wrote, there are 2 - versions in > addition. i didn't want to make a pointlessly long email. > > it would be great if i could provide a reproduction recipe. i don't > know how i couold do that in this case. for example, when i try to > pare down the repo and make private things obscured, i run into the > proble that when i do staging, things change around, thus erasing that > particular bug. and other stuff like my limited knowledge of git. > > i'm afraid i am stuck with hoping for other types of solutions like > "i've seen this before" or "that's not possuble unless..."or something > a priori like that. but if you have an idea of how to create a > minimal repro in less than a week, let me know. > > > On 12/31/22, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Samuel Wales <samologist@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> the problem that seems like data corruption is that a few lines appear >>> twice as - and once as +. but in the current version of the files, >>> those lines exist only once. here are the lines. there are 2 - >>> versions and one + version: >>> >>> +***************** REF bigpart is a partition >>> +biglike and homelike are distracting nonsense i think except >>> +to describe inferior filesets. anomalous subset of home >>> +might be called homelike or so. >> >> Sorry, but I do not see any "-" versions in the above. Simple and >> minimum reproduction recipe would be useful for the list to help. >> >> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html >> >> Thanks. >> > > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic > > A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: > https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
