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It is possible to generate a corrupt MIDX bitmap when certain conditions are met. This happens when the preferred pack "P" changes to one (say, "Q") that: - "Q" has objects included in an existing MIDX, - but "Q" is different than "P", - and "Q" and "P" have some objects in common When this is the case, not all objects from "Q" will be selected from "Q" (ie., the generated MIDX will represent them as coming from a different pack), despite "Q" being preferred. This is an invariant violation, since all objects contained in the MIDX's preferred pack are supposed to originate from the preferred pack. In other words, all duplicate objects are resolved in favor of the copy that comes from the MIDX's preferred pack, if any. This violation results in a corrupt object order, which cannot be interpreted by the pack-bitmap code, leading to broken clones and other defects. This test demonstrates the above problem by constructing a minimal reproduction, and showing that the final `git clone` invocation fails. The reproduction is mostly straightforward, except that the new pack generated between MIDX writes (which is necessary in order to prevent that operation from being a noop) must sort ahead of all existing packs in order to prevent a different pack (neither "P" nor "Q") from appearing as preferred (meaning all its objects appear in order at the beginning of the pseudo-pack order). Subsequent commits will first refactor the midx.c::get_sorted_entries() function, and then fix this bug. Reported-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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