On Sunday 15 of December 2013 01:13:51 Darrell Anderson wrote: > >> Is there a way to download just the .git directory? Or pull the > >> .git directory from the top level of the sources? > > > >Are you possibly seeing the result of a hardware failure ! > >I'd run memcheck... Then try fsck on the hdd. > > No, nothing like that. I have a backup clone of the entire drive > and the same modules are missing the .git folders there too. Likely > this has been happening for several days but as I don't sit and > watch the script running I would not have noticed the fatal error > messages. > > The .git folders have simply disappeared. How will remain a > mystery. Not all have disappeared, just some. Murphy's Law, one of > the affected folders has to be !#%* tde-i18n, at 1.1 GB. > > I'm slowly rebuilding affected modules by running git clone in a > clean location, but this is not my idea of how to spend the day. :-( > > The entire GIT tree is 5.5 GB, which with my ISP connection, would > take more than 4 hours --- at optimal connection speed. Probably 6 > hours or so, because many folks on this small rural ISP network are > indoors during the cold winter night streaming movies.... > > I'd like to find a way to just snag the missing .git folder, but no > such fortune yet on the web. > > Darrell > It is strange to me, how could git folder just lose. For tde-i18n would "lost" had to take some time. Have you tried git fsck on the modules that are okay for now? Slavek