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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, nico@cam.org
Subject: Re: How to replace a single corrupt, packed object?
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:19:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080808161937.GC9152@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0BF03F86-8E4E-46D2-9B04-4385CEBD6902@ai.rug.nl>

Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> wrote:
> On 8 aug 2008, at 16:41, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> fatal: corrupt packed object for  
>> 2c1e128aa51e3a64bd61556c0cd488628b423ccf
>> error: failed to run repack
>>
>> What's
>> the best way out?
>
> I don't know how to replace the object, but you can expand the pack,  
> replace
> the loose file, delete the old pack, and then create a new one

I don't think that will work here.  The unpack-objects process will
fail when it finds this bad object, and everything after that in
the pack file will be dropped on the floor and not get unpacked.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-08 14:41 How to replace a single corrupt, packed object? Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-08 14:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 14:50   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-08 15:21     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-08 16:23       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 15:30 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-08-08 16:19   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
     [not found]     ` <90E12BC7-1950-41DF-8BE5-C6B63CE060D9@ai.rug.nl>
2008-08-08 16:36       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-08 16:48       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11  2:55         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-11  3:07           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11  3:40             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-11  3:46               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 18:59           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11  1:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-15 14:05   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-09-15 16:26     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-15 16:34       ` Johannes Schindelin

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