From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Cc: weigelt@metux.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG! missing .idx causes .pack to be removed
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:14:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5BB64A.4070601@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=bjM7rGSXv0eB5+6VEX=wY84upkzDcBJ6C9KdK@mail.gmail.com>
Am 06.08.2010 05:24, schrieb Tay Ray Chuan:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>> while doing some experiments I've removed the *.idx files and
>> ran git-repack - that complained about missing objects and removed
>> all *.pack files !
>>
>> I'm sure that's a bug - an ugly one ;-o
>
> 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.
René
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 7:14 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 [this message]
2010-08-13 16:02 ` Enrico Weigelt
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