From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Schwinge Subject: Removing alternates -- but how? Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:57:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20100413125704.GA29552@dirichlet.schwinge.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 13 15:06:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1fp7-00038T-K2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:06:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751525Ab0DMNFW (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:05:22 -0400 Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.41]:55585 "EHLO smtprelay03.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468Ab0DMNFN (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:05:13 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 456 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:05:13 EDT Received: from [79.210.73.32] (helo=stokes.schwinge.homeip.net) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1O1fgM-00036D-3G for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:57:34 +0200 Received: (qmail 17763 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2010 12:57:05 -0000 Received: from dirichlet.schwinge.homeip.net (192.168.111.252) by stokes.schwinge.homeip.net with QMQP; 13 Apr 2010 12:57:05 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 29603 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:57:04 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline X-Homepage: http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Df-Sender: thomas@schwinge.name Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello! According to ``information on the web'', it should be fine to do ``git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates'', however that doesn't work for me: $ cat .git/objects/info/alternates ../../../glibc/.git/objects ../../../../O/work.new/.git/objects $ git repack -a Counting objects: 18670, done. Compressing objects: 100% (7655/7655), done. Writing objects: 100% (18670/18670), done. Total 18670 (delta 10218), reused 18670 (delta 10218) $ mv .git/objects/info/alternates{,.DEFUNCT} $ git branch error: refs/remotes/grubber/master does not point to a valid object! error: refs/remotes/sourceware/cvs/fedora-2_3-branch does not point to a valid object! error: refs/remotes/sourceware/cvs/fedora-2_5-branch does not point to a valid object! [...] error: refs/tags/cvs/sparc-980522-merge does not point to a valid object! error: refs/tags/cvs/start does not point to a valid object! error: refs/tags/master-2008-11-27 does not point to a valid object! error: refs/tags/master-2009-02-10 does not point to a valid object! error: refs/tags/master-2009-07-10 does not point to a valid object! error: refs/top-bases/t/IOCTL_decode_argument does not point to a valid object! error: refs/top-bases/t/IOCTL_types does not point to a valid object! error: refs/top-bases/t/____longjmp_chk_cleanup_linux_x86_64 does not point to a valid object! error: refs/top-bases/t/bits_posix_opt.h__POSIX_THREADS does not point to a valid object! error: refs/top-bases/t/bits_pthreadtypes.h does not point to a valid object! baseline posix/regex_internal.c/MAX_undefined t/IOCTL_decode_argument t/IOCTL_types t/____longjmp_chk t/____longjmp_chk_cleanup_linux_x86_64 t/__rtld_lock_recursive_t [...] t/verify.h * tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker What am I doing wrong? Regards, Thomas --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvEahsACgkQC9ZuxbdEiFhWFgCghQnyMl4xrVk7mfmaMmNtD23O nj4AniE6jAwTbXKoZ7nTBuDTKeTwGj4E =UXWu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--