Restoring files from a corrupt bundle

[Erik Muttersbach]

Thanks for your information and support!

Finally, is there a chance to recover at least the other files from the bundle?

Erik


On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 22:07 +0100, Erik Muttersbach wrote:
>> I just found out that the size of the file I commted was 3050086400
>> Bytes, so about 2.8GB. You wrote that you use 31bit, so this probably
>> caused an overflow?
> 
> It'll cause an overflow in a few places:
> 
> a) when writing the first revision to the revlog, we'll store an
> uncompressed size modulo 2G, but we'll still be able to successfully
> read the whole file
> 
> b) when building the bundle for transmission or stripping, we'll report
> a chunk size modulo 2G, which will be interpreted as a negative number
> and thus look like an empty chunk.
> 
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