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How trustworthy is git-fsck for detecting random-bit corruption?
by everybodyknows 4y ago
How trustworthy is git-fsck for detecting random-bit corruption?
- dale_glass 4y agoDepends on how you look at it. For actual verification, unless there's a bug my understanding is that very trustworthy. But by that point it's already too late. Okay, you know something is broken, but that won't give your good data back. But that only tells you that Git data is intact and that all the hashes match. If git got a corrupted file to start with, then correctly hashed it, everything will verify 100% and still be broken.