microsoft / microsoft/VFSForGit

`gvfs diagnose` disk info is sensitive to missing local cache

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type: bug
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Description

Suppose we are running gvfs diagnose on a repo that has incorrectly written metadata, so we cannot load the disk information. However, we should still be resilient to this scenario so we can report the amount of space available on the local disk.

See this section of DiagnoseVerb.cs.

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Research direction

Start in GVFS/GVFS/CommandLine/DiagnoseVerb.cs at the section linked in the issue, and trace how disk information is loaded when repository metadata cannot be read. The change is complete when gvfs diagnose still reports available local-disk space for a repository with incorrectly written metadata.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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