Pieter de Bie <pdebie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8 aug 2008, at 18:19, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >> The unpack-objects process will >> fail when it finds this bad object, and everything after that in >> the pack file will be dropped on the floor and not get unpacked. > > Even with the -r switch? > > -r When unpacking a corrupt packfile, the command dies at the > first corruption. This flag tells it to keep going and make > the best effort to recover as many objects as possible. Oh, thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten that Linus added -r when someone else had corruption in a packed object. Yea, if you use -r it may be able to resume and pick up where it left off. I haven't studied the -r code so I'm not sure how it knows where its safe to restart unpacking from. But if you have a .idx file we probably could make a really good guess based on the offsets it stores. I doubt unpack-objects makes use of the .idx. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
