Subject: Re: Garbage in .git directories???

From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:09:21 -0500

On Monday 19 September 2005 09:51, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > Couple more points - just using rsync to get the data (without using git)
> > does not not produce that wierd directory, only got clone does.
> 
> Does a plain "git-init-db" in a newly created empty directory do the same?  
> There was a bug (a long time ago)  that created garbage instead of the
> template files, I think.
>

Yes, plain git-init-db produces the garbage.

[dtor@anvil tst]$ git-init-db
defaulting to local storage area
[dtor@anvil tst]$ ls -l .git/
total 32
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 branches
-rw-rw-r--    1 dtor dtor   58 Sep 19 19:08 description
lrwxrwxrwx    1 dtor dtor   17 Sep 19 19:08 HEAD -> refs/heads/master
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 hooks
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 info
drwxrwxr-x  260 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 objects
drwxrwxr-x    4 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 refs
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 remotes
drwxrwxr-x    2 dtor dtor 4096 Sep 19 19:08 V?Cl???E ???#V?C??տl??E#V?C??;H
[dtor@anvil tst]$ git --version
git version 0.99.7

(Actually this is last night's pull).

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Dmitry