Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.1

From: Heikki Orsila
Date: Thu Dec 25 2008 - 07:05:29 EST


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36:27PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with
> corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are
> available elsewhere.

Has anyone written a summary of how Git's redundancy operates?

* What would be the probability for a single bit flip to corrupt the
repository?

* And what is the situation where a single bit flip can not corrupt the
database?

* When (which commands/functions) is error detection done?

Heikki
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