fsck --lost-found: write blob's contents, not their SHA-1
When looking for a lost blob, it is much nicer to be able to grep
through .git/lost-found/other/* than to write an inefficient loop
over the file names. So write the contents of the dangling blobs,
not their object names.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 1a432f2..45c0bee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -65,8 +65,10 @@
Be chatty.
--lost-found::
- Write dangling refs into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
- .git/lost-found/other/, depending on type.
+ Write dangling objects into .git/lost-found/commit/ or
+ .git/lost-found/other/, depending on type. If the object is
+ a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
+ its object name.
It tests SHA1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking of
the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
diff --git a/builtin-fsck.c b/builtin-fsck.c
index 350ec5e..8d12287 100644
--- a/builtin-fsck.c
+++ b/builtin-fsck.c
@@ -152,7 +152,17 @@
}
if (!(f = fopen(filename, "w")))
die("Could not open %s", filename);
- fprintf(f, "%s\n", sha1_to_hex(obj->sha1));
+ if (obj->type == OBJ_BLOB) {
+ enum object_type type;
+ unsigned long size;
+ char *buf = read_sha1_file(obj->sha1,
+ &type, &size);
+ if (buf) {
+ fwrite(buf, size, 1, f);
+ free(buf);
+ }
+ } else
+ fprintf(f, "%s\n", sha1_to_hex(obj->sha1));
fclose(f);
}
return;
