From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Subject: Re: error out when searching a pack index which lacks a corresponding pack file
To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2021 12:08:14 -0600

On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 12:40:28 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> Some Git repository clones created by Git can somehow end up with pack index
> files that lack a corresponding pack file. This came up on the #gameoftrees
> IRC channel recently where the repository was cloned by git clone --bare
> from a https:// URL.
>
> Git seems to silently ignore this problem. I think we should be treating
> this as a repository corruption issue because a lonely index should never
> appear intentionally.
> A pack file without an index is valid, but an index without a pack file can
> never be valid. When removing a pack file the corresponding index should
> always be removed first before the pack file gets removed.

Is there any way to recover from this other than cloning a new copy
of the repo?

 - todd