author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
Mon, 4 Sep 2006 05:55:54 +0000 (22:55 -0700) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:42:00 +0000 (02:42 -0700) | ||
commit | f986f2c830b24a0f56f2bf4b3f30353ca1e372a9 | |
tree | c6bcc444c0bcd81b6a4844034bde1a1bdaff248a | tree | snapshot |
parent | f2e609473cb4aeb3884b7dd57a3a652df4e5edcf | commit | diff |
unpack-objects desperately salvages objects from a corrupt pack
The command unpack-objects dies upon the first error. This is
probably considered a feature -- if a pack is corrupt, instead
of trying to extract from it and possibly risking to contaminate
a good repository with objects whose validity is dubious, we
should seek a good copy of the pack and retry. However, we may
not have any good copy anywhere. This implements the last
resort effort to extract what are salvageable from such a
corrupt pack.
This flag might have helped Sergio when recovering from a
corrupt pack. In my test, it managed to salvage 247 objects out
of a pack that had 251 objects but without it the command
stopped after extracting 73 objects.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The command unpack-objects dies upon the first error. This is
probably considered a feature -- if a pack is corrupt, instead
of trying to extract from it and possibly risking to contaminate
a good repository with objects whose validity is dubious, we
should seek a good copy of the pack and retry. However, we may
not have any good copy anywhere. This implements the last
resort effort to extract what are salvageable from such a
corrupt pack.
This flag might have helped Sergio when recovering from a
corrupt pack. In my test, it managed to salvage 247 objects out
of a pack that had 251 objects but without it the command
stopped after extracting 73 objects.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt | diff | blob | history | |
builtin-unpack-objects.c | diff | blob | history |