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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Litvinov <litvinov2004@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: My git repo is broken, how to fix it ?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:23:01 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703201113180.18328@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd5349x97.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > But to really look at this we should probably add a "really_careful" flag 
> > that actually re-verifies the SHA1 on read so that we'd catch these kinds 
> > of corruptions early. 
> > ...
> > I'm hoping somebody has any ideas. We really *could* check the SHA1 on 
> > each read (and slow down git a lot) and that would catch corruption much 
> > faster and hopefully pinpoint it more quickly where exactly it happens. 
> 
> At least, we could do something like this to catch the breakage
> when we (re)pack, to prevent damage from propagating.

I think it would be better to retest the SHA1 when we're about to 
_write_ the object out to the pack, replacing check_pack_inflate() and 
revalidate_loose_object() with the full SHA1 check, and testing objects 
which data isn't reused from a pack too.  And make it conditional on 
!pack_to_stdout like we already do of course.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-20 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-28  4:36 My git repo is broken, how to fix it ? Alexander Litvinov
2007-02-28  4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 11:54   ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-02-28 16:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 19:12       ` Alex Riesen
2007-03-19 13:32       ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-19 15:20         ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]           ` <200703201013.39169.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-20  5:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-20  6:55               ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-20  7:42               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-20 15:23                 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703200832150.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703200836490.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <200703210956.50018.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-22 15:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:34         ` Nicolas Pitre
     [not found]       ` <200703211024.04740.litvinov2004@gmail.com>
2007-03-22 16:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:29           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 16:48             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 17:01               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-22 17:10                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22 17:28                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-22 22:13                   ` Jeff King
2007-03-23  0:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-23  0:42                       ` Bill Lear
2007-03-23  0:51                       ` Jeff King
2007-03-22 20:31               ` [PATCH] git-apply: Do not free the wrong buffer when we convert the data for writeout Junio C Hamano
2007-03-22 20:55                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-23  3:55                   ` Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-23  3:40               ` My git repo is broken, how to fix it ? Alexander Litvinov
2007-03-22 17:12             ` Johannes Sixt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-06 17:27 B
2021-06-06 17:28 B
2021-12-25  8:30 Joseph Mitchell
2021-12-26  0:48 ` Lemuria
2023-05-29 18:57 ross thomas

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