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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de> writes:
>
> There's also the brute-force approach
>
> rsync $good_repo/.git/objects/ $bad_repo/.git/objects/
> cd $bad_repo
> git gc
>
> Notice the absence of --delete in the rsync command: I'm just adding
> new files in the $bad_repo, not deleting any (since files with
> identical names must have identical content).

Thanks. This should be an applicable method. However, before rsyncing,
the pack should be unpacked first.