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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rebuild repo from data, packfiles?
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:16:48 -0600
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Hi Tom,

tom fogal wrote:

> Long story short, I lost some metadata in a repo I've got.  However,
> my entire .git/objects/ && subdirs is intact, so I'm hopeful my data's
> still accessible in some form.

Here's what I'd suggest.

 1. Backup what you have.
 2. git init newrepo
 3. rsync -a .git/refs .git/objects .git/packed-refs newrepo/.git/
 4. cd newrepo && git fsck --lost-found

See the repository-layout manual page[1] for details.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrepository-layout.html