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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pack corruption post-mortem
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:06:50 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ArdCrqn58wnx9c6wx148CfnQrWPfuxH5D7s1bvwr=cjQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201310160941.16904.mfick@codeaurora.org>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> and then running "git index-pack tmp.pack" in the
>> debugger (stop at unpack_raw_entry). Doing this, I found
>> that there were 3 bytes of header (and the header itself
>> had a sane type and size). So I stripped those off with:
>>
>>   dd if=object of=zlib bs=1 skip=3
>
> This too feels like something we should be able to do with a
> plumbing command eventually?
>
> git zlib-extract

Not an official plumbing, but I faced similar problems with pack v4. I
needed to verify that the output is correct and low level decoding
like this is generally a good thing to start with. So I wrote
test-dump [1] that can take an offset, a format and try to decode it.
It does not support zlib inflation yet, but adding one should be easy.
And because this is just a test program we don't really need to think
hard before adding something.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/235388
-- 
Duy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-16  8:34 pack corruption post-mortem Jeff King
2013-10-16  8:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-16 15:41 ` Martin Fick
2013-10-17  0:35   ` Jeff King
2013-10-17 15:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25  7:55       ` Jeff King
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2013-10-19 10:32 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 14:41   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-19 19:17     ` Shawn Pearce
2013-10-20 20:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-20  4:44     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-20 21:08       ` Nicolas Pitre
2015-04-01 21:08 ` [PATCH] howto: document more tools for recovery corruption Jeff King
2015-04-01 22:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-02  0:49     ` Jeff King

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