Johan Herland <jo...@herland.net> writes:

> I simply copied the packfile containing the good copy into the
> corrupted repo, and then ran a "git gc", which "happened" to use the
> good copy of the corrupted object and complete successfully (instead
> of barfing on the bad copy). The GC then removed the old
> (now-obsolete) packfiles, and thus the corruption was gone.
>
> However, exactly _why_ git happened to prefer the good copy in my
> copied packfile instead of the bad copy in the existing packfile, I do
> not know.

By design ;-)
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