Re: Validation of a commit object?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-08-14 18:39:42
On 8/14/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> The reason I ask is I'm working on my (bastard) fast-import program
> for Jon's Mozilla CVS -> GIT conversion effort and I'm taking the
> author and committer lines blind from the Python code.  If the
> Python code gives me a bad line its going to go into the pack that
> way, with that possibly resulting in a totally corrupt repository.

Apart from timestamp, which is used in merge base and rev-list
calculations, it does not look like "a totally corrupt repository".
"Slightly corrupt", perhaps - you still can work with it, so long
the blobs, commits and trees make sense.
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Received on Mon Aug 14 18:40:18 2006

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