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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: copying objects from another repo?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:14:08 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241213000.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070724103503.GC18701@mellanox.co.il>

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> I had some missing objects that I managed to locate
> in another tree. So - how to get them to my repo?
> Here's what I came up with:
> 
> cd ~/scm/good_tree
> git tag -f foo dfaa7049e9ebe227cfcffc49d3de16716764bcbd
> cd ~/scm/bad_tree
> git fetch-pack ~/scm/good_tree dfaa7049e9ebe227cfcffc49d3de16716764bcbd
> 
> And I repeated this for all missing objects.
> But is there a better way to do this?

This is what I have done in such a case:

In the valid repo:

	$ git gc
	$ scp .git/objects/packs/* the-broken:repo.git/objects/packs/

In the broken repo:

	$ git gc

Done.

Hth,
Dscho

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24 10:35 copying objects from another repo? Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-07-24 11:14 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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