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Andraž Bajt's blog · Feb 24, 2016

Repairing a corrupt Git repo using a clone

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Quite recently I managed to make myself a corrupt git repository due to a file system failure. See, git stores everything in content addressable blobs - the file name of something is it’s hash. Which lends itself nicely to checking repository integrity - it keeps out malicious attackers as well as my file system problems. I already hear you saying: Why not just make a new clone, git is…

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