From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750981AbWG0SNY (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751909AbWG0SNY (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:13:24 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:9610 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750981AbWG0SNY (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:13:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Nasty git corruption problem From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Johannes Schindelin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1153929715.13509.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:32:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1154025127.13509.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Mer, 2006-07-26 am 10:43 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > (And if it wasn't already obvious, with my patch you still need to do > "git-fsck-objects --full --lost-n-found" if you want to look inside those > pack-files, but at least it's an option you can enable). git-lost-found turns up some of the missing stuff that was applied earliest in the rebase but the other stuff is apparently neither visible anywhere in the tree or missing (the tree I was rebasing "^^^..." never shows it nor does the log). The changes are in the objects if you dump every object and investigate them by hand. Beats me but a mix of a restore and reapplying some stuff from archived email along with rescued objects seems to have recovered all lost changesets. Alan