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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
To: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a quick way to identify commits that reference missing trees or blobs?
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:34:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725223449.GA25560@toss.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3AnroyfeGOo_23nHKhLjxEnP_qEMi7as1UjXEFjjuVOckBjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 02:48:20AM +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
>
> I was wondering if there is a quick way to identify commits that
> reference missing trees or blobs as identified by git fsck?

The following command has served me well for this purpose. I apply
it to each ref in git-for-each-ref:

$ git rev-list --objects $ref | git cat-file --batch-check

It may not be the fastest way to do it, but it did the trick for
me. I then simply deleted any broken refs using git update-ref -d
$ref, even if the tip of the branch was still intact. I could have
tried to salvage some history from those refs, but I had a backup
and at that point I just wanted to continue working.

hth,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-23 16:48 Is there a quick way to identify commits that reference missing trees or blobs? Jon Seymour
2011-07-25 22:34 ` Clemens Buchacher [this message]
2011-07-25 22:44   ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-07-26  1:39     ` Jon Seymour
2011-07-26  4:20       ` Jon Seymour

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