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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: copying objects from another repo?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:14:08 +0100 (BST)
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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