From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: gc considered dangerous Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:37:53 +0100 Message-ID: <200902082037.54042.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <200902080347.25970.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <200902081704.59439.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Git ML , "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 08 20:39:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWFVD-0008Co-Jx for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:39:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753435AbZBHTiF convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:38:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753128AbZBHTiB (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:38:01 -0500 Received: from mail.dewire.com ([83.140.172.130]:20288 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754000AbZBHTiA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:38:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9D1147E880; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:37:56 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8CBFkYnEu23S; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:37:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from sleipner.localnet (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA13147E7FE; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:37:56 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: s=F6ndag 08 februari 2009 19:24:33 skrev Steffen Prohaska: > If you have a backup of the corrupted repository right after it got > corrupted, you can create an index by running "git index-pack" on > the pack that is lacking an index. This might rescue the lost > branches. Yep, but the problem was that git gc was run again on the corrupted rep= o so there was only the idx left. (L)Users... Couldn't we make repack refuse to repack if it discovered left-overs fr= om a failed repack, or at least make it use the old pack files as referenc= e instead of ignoring them? Leaving too many objects is, after all, much better t= han destroying the repo. -- robin