Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: re-validate data we copy from elsewhere.

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

The Linus's theory goes like this:

 (1) A bit in an existing pack was damaged somehow.  It might have
     happened on the mothership machine when it was first created,
     or after it was read and copied to the notebook via rsync.

NOTE! With the new loose object format, this will be true even of 
individually packed files (if you set "core.legacyheaders" to false). So 
checking the SHA1 of the pack-files is insufficient - at least for those 
loose objects.

So revalidating the individual objects will catch that case too, while 
revalidating the SHA1 of the old pack-files won't.

		Linus

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