Re: Recovering from repository corruption

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 17:09, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ahh, ok. Yes, we should probably re-think our 'grafts' file thing, or at
> least not document it, because it's actually a wondeful way to just cause
> more corruption by hiding things (ie if you clone a repo with a grafts
> file, the result will now have neither the grafts file _nor_ the state
> that was hidden by it, so the result is guaranteed to be corrupt).

I'd argue in favor of documenting it, even if it's dangerous, unless
there's some other mechanism (rebase?) that would let me do what I
did?  That is, to recover from corruption in a way that lets me
regenerate or ignore inexact, corrupted commits.

-- 
 Denis
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