From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@gibbs.hungrycats.org>
Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>,
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:51:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpflktaf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100218153249.GA11733@gibbs.hungrycats.org
Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@gibbs.hungrycats.org> writes:
> If git commit runs out of disk space, for example, the commit should
> fail, but the repository should still not be corrupt. Future commits
> (for example after freeing some disk space) should eventually succeed.
That is true. It is Ok to create a corrupt object as long as running an
equivalent of fsck immediately after an object creation to catch the
breakage to prevent it from propagating further.
That is essentially what "paranoid" switch does, but it adds overhead that
is unnecessary for the use case we primarily target in git.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-19 17:52 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-12 0:27 ` Bug#569505: git-core: 'git add' corrupts repository if the working directory is modified as it runs Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-12 1:23 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-13 12:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-13 13:39 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-02-13 14:39 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-13 16:29 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-02-13 22:09 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-13 22:37 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-14 1:18 ` [PATCH] don't use mmap() to hash files Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 1:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 3:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 11:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-14 11:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 1:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 2:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:42 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 11:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-02-14 11:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-14 18:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:06 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 19:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-14 19:56 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 23:52 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-15 5:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 12:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-15 7:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-15 12:25 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 19:55 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-14 23:13 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 4:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 5:01 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 5:48 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-15 19:19 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-15 19:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-14 3:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-18 1:16 ` [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 15:32 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-02-18 1:38 ` Jeff King
2010-02-18 4:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 7:27 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-02-18 16:18 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-18 18:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-18 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 12:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-22 13:33 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-18 10:14 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-18 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 19:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 20:11 ` 16 gig, 350,000 file repository Bill Lear
2010-02-18 20:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-19 9:27 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-22 22:20 ` Bill Lear
2010-02-22 22:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-18 20:14 ` [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid Peter Harris
2010-02-18 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-18 21:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-19 1:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19 15:26 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-19 19:08 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-19 8:28 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-19 17:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-20 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-21 7:21 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-21 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 3:35 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 6:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 12:25 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 15:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 16:01 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 17:31 ` Zygo Blaxell
2010-02-22 18:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-22 20:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-22 18:05 ` Dmitry Potapov
2010-02-22 18:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-14 1:36 ` mmap with MAP_PRIVATE is useless (was Re: Bug#569505: git-core: 'git add' corrupts repository if the working directory is modified as it runs) Paolo Bonzini
2010-02-14 1:53 ` mmap with MAP_PRIVATE is useless Junio C Hamano
2010-02-14 2:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
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