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From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
To: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to fetch missing pack
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080413094131.GA9437@xp.machine.xx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrng019fg.nd8.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:07:12PM +0000, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm missing a pack. My history of the git repository is broken:
> % git show --pretty=raw e0fda6ab|head -7
> commit e0fda6abd11c567b72f29ec0ee06c541404a9cb7
> tree 77a7e4a849bbec646d88ae863f80ea3f519e26bd
> parent 1ab58e8d6f728cdde0057f7ee88daab3a1c2d06f
> author Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> 1196066088 +0100
> committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1196109124 -0800
> 
>     Fix typo in draft 1.5.4 release notes
> % git log --pretty=oneline e0fda6ab | wc -l
> 1
> % git show e0fda6ab~1|cat
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'e0fda6ab~1': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
> 
> Can I somehow tell git fetch to check the whole history for holes and
> fetch missing packs?
> 
> Bye, Jörg.

Try using git fsck --full to check you repo. If you are missing some
objects, you could just grab them from another valid repo which still has
them. (e.g. copy all packs/objects from the other repo into yours and then
do a git-repack -a -d -f)

-Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-13  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-12 12:07 How to fetch missing pack Jörg Sommer
2008-04-13  9:41 ` Peter Baumann [this message]
2008-04-23 20:55   ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-24  6:01     ` Christian Couder
2008-04-24  6:08       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-27 10:47         ` git doesn't finds the parent of a commit (was: How to fetch missing pack) Jörg Sommer
2008-04-27 17:37           ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-04-27 20:18             ` git doesn't finds the parent of a commit Junio C Hamano
2008-04-27 21:46               ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-04-28 14:14             ` Jörg Sommer

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