Re: Recovering from missing objects?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Might it not be simpler to just copy or hardlink the pack from the new
> > clone into the old directory's .git/objects/pack? That will get more
> > than you need, but things should start working, at which point a "git
> > repack -a -d" will make it small again.
> >
> > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> If you already have a good clone and a half-broken one locally, of course,
> what you said is the easiest.
> 
> I just assumed that Geert did not really want to copy the whole pack.
> Maybe he doesn't mind in this particular case, but the next breakage may
> involve gigapacks he'd rather not re-clone.

Ah, OK. I had the impression that he had already made a new valid clone
on the local box.

> I also assumed that anybody who is reading the message can easily guess
> that the copy I was demonstrating in the description could be done across
> machines, instead of via local /var/tmp/, and "In the new clone" steps
> could even be done in the original one.  Presenting the knowledge that
> way, the solution hopefully would be adjustable for more people who are
> reading this thread.

Makes sense. Thanks.

-Peff