I had this issue too – here’s a generic .gitattributes that looks generally safe for php web repos that worked for me: https://github.com/Danimoth/gitattributes/blob/master/Web.gitattributes running git check-attr –all — path/to/png before and after adding the new gitattributes showed that the image file was originally treated as a text file, and now it’s binary (note I had … Read more
My solution for a similar situation was to replace a hash of the damaged object in .git/refs/heads/my-working-branch with a hash of previous commit (which can be found in .git/logs/HEAD).
To repair a corrupt database you can use the sqlite3 commandline utility. Type in the following commands in a shell after setting the environment variables: cd $DATABASE_LOCATION echo ‘.dump’|sqlite3 $DB_NAME|sqlite3 repaired_$DB_NAME mv $DB_NAME corrupt_$DB_NAME mv repaired_$DB_NAME $DB_NAME This code helped me recover a SQLite database I use as a persistent store for Core Data and … Read more
UPDATE: There is now an automatic method that is built into SQLite: .recover Sometimes, the corruption is only or mostly in indexes, in which case it would be possible to get some or most records by trying to dump the entire database with .dump, and use those commands to create a new database: $ sqlite3 … Read more
In some previous backups, your bad objects may have been packed in different files or may be loose objects yet. So your objects may be recovered. It seems there are a few bad objects in your database. So you could do it the manual way. Because of git hash-object, git mktree and git commit-tree do … Read more
The file is actually a PNG with the wrong file extension. “0x89 0x50” is how a PNG file starts.
I’m not sure what might cause the corrupt packet problem that drops your connection, but you might find rsync’s –partial or –partial-dir option helpful when transferring large files so that when you restart the transfer it will continue where the transfer left off instead of having to start over transferring the whole file again: –partial-dir=.rsync-partial … Read more
The System Volume Information directory should be excluded using the /XD switch. Probably a good idea to exclude other hidden/system directories such as $RECYCLE.BIN.
Honestly your best approach here is to either fix the power-cuts, or deploy a different system in a better location. Yes there are systems such as redis which will store data in an append-only-log for replay, but you risk corruption at lower levels – e.g. if your filesystem is scrambled then the data on disk … Read more
Recent versions of Mercurial (since 1.5) support validation of incoming data. Add [server] validate = True to your server’s hg config (either .hg/hgrc or the hgwebdir config should work fine) to have the server verify incoming data and refuse invalid pushes. The client will then see an error akin to: remote: abort: missing file data … Read more