From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG! missing .idx causes .pack to be removed
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:02:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100813160221.GA10974@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5BB64A.4070601@lsrfire.ath.cx>
* René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:
> > IIRC, a .pack file is useless without its corresponding .idx file. So
> > the removal of a .pack file makes sense here - to me, at least.
>
> git-index-pack can rebuild the index for a pack file. Not sure if it
> should be done automagically, but the file is not completely useless.
ACK. packfiles are completely self-contained - the index files are
only used for lookup and can be created any time (IMHO that's also
done automatically on remote transfers). So removing a packfile,
just because the index is missing, causes an serious data loss.
That's what I'd consider a critical bug!
The correct solution would be either recreating the index
automatically or at least spit out an big-fat warning.
cu
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-13 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-05 17:01 BUG! missing .idx causes .pack to be removed Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-06 3:24 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-08-06 7:14 ` René Scharfe
2010-08-13 16:02 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
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