A database modified in Linux fails to open in Windows? about classic-level

[aaclayton]

An update to anyone who comes searching and finds this issue. The root cause of the problem was line ending conversion behavior of git on Windows that, when the data was pulled was attempting to change line endings in the the LevelDB binary files which caused them to become corrupted.

There are two solutions that we found worked. We could solve the problem by doing either of the following:

1. Git config core.autocrlf set to input to avoid changing line endings when pulling code. (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration)
2. Add .gitattributes to the project with a data/** binary rule targetting all the files generated by LevelDB (https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/configuring-git-to-handle-line-endings)

I think the exact issue is that since the MANIFEST-* file is binary, but does not use a file extension that is recognizable as such, git on Windows was trying to do line ending conversion in that file.