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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: How to replace a single corrupt, packed object?
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:19:37 -0700
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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.