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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Keegan Carruthers-Smith <keegan.csmith@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 15:08:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190528190815.GA20499@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b312f6c-3375-66ba-efc7-931e4ddc4b11@web.de>

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:01:43PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> Am 28.05.19 um 07:58 schrieb Jeff King:
> > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 03:26:53PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> >
> >> We could
> >> make git fsck report such symlinks.
> >
> > This is a little tricky, because fsck generally looks at individual
> > objects, and the bad pattern is a combination of a tree and a blob
> > together. I think you could make it work by reusing some of the code and
> > patterns from 9e84a6d758 (Merge branch 'jk/submodule-fsck-loose' into
> > maint, 2018-05-22).
> 
> Actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience (SCNR, watched a lot
> of those rants recently)..  Did I miss something?

Yes. You cannot rely on calling read_object_file() in real-time when the
fsck is being done by index-pack. The blob in question may be in the
pack you are indexing.

See fsck_finish() for how we do this for .gitmodules checks.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24  6:45 git archive generates tar with malformed pax extended attribute Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-24  7:06 ` Jeff King
2019-05-24  7:35   ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-24  8:13     ` Jeff King
2019-05-25 13:26       ` René Scharfe
2019-05-25 13:46         ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-25 21:07         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-26 21:33           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28  5:44             ` Jeff King
2019-05-28  5:58         ` Jeff King
2019-05-28 18:01           ` René Scharfe
2019-05-28 19:08             ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-05-28 23:34               ` René Scharfe
2019-05-29  1:17                 ` Jeff King
2019-05-29 17:54                   ` René Scharfe
2019-05-30 11:55                     ` Jeff King
2019-06-02 16:58                       ` René Scharfe
2019-06-04 20:53                         ` Jeff King
2019-05-27  5:11       ` Keegan Carruthers-Smith
2019-05-25 20:46   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-25 21:19     ` brian m. carlson

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