What are the recovery expectations of ktra about ktra HOT 4 CLOSED

The git index is how cargo does the dependency resolution/interacts with a registry, see https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/registries.html#index-format

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Hi @garyanaplan, thank you for using Ktra.

To come to the point, and unfortunately, it is not possible to restore deleted database and crates data from the index git repository.
A metadata sent by cargo when you hit cargo publish command is similar to the index data but not the same. The metadata can map onto the index data but not vice versa.
Additionally, the checksum of crate binary data is calculated when it is published so if you remove crates directory you cannot retrieve it too.

Feel free to write a comment if you have more questions 👍.

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That's totally fine. I wanted to get a better idea of how things worked and you've made that very clear. Thank you!

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@moriturus I have a follow up question.

What's the purpose of git index if it contains only a subset of data published to the database? It sounds redundant as it'd seem that database+crates tars (archives) should be enough but I'm surely missing something?

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