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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea•gnuu.de>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to fetch missing pack
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:08:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080424060857.GX29771@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804240801.13674.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily•org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 23 avril 2008, Jörg Sommer a écrit :
> > Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx•de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Try using git fsck --full to check you repo. If you are missing some
> > > objects, you could just grab them from another valid repo which still
> > > has them.
> >
> > How can I exctract single objects from a pack?
> 
> Please have a look at this:
> 
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-ac11406480d09e2df98588e800e41b7256602074

If you know the name of the objects you are missing, you can
make a temporary pack to transfer the list of objects:

	# at good repo
	#
	git pack-objects --stdout <object.list >save.pack

	# at bad repo
	#
	git index-pack --stdin <save.pack

Make object.list just one SHA-1 per line.  The resulting pack is
not likely to be highly compressed, as it will probably contain
a non-delta version of each object, but its faster to create than
calling git-cat-file for each object, and may give you a smaller
pack than just copying everything as the FAQ entry recommends.

Note that you may need to do this several times; e.g. if you are
missing a tree you won't know what blobs you are missing until
you load the tree and run fsck --full again to parse the tree and
discover the missing blobs.  This iterative copying approach is
what the FAQ avoids when it suggests you copy everything.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-12 12:07 How to fetch missing pack Jörg Sommer
2008-04-13  9:41 ` Peter Baumann
2008-04-23 20:55   ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-24  6:01     ` Christian Couder
2008-04-24  6:08       ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-04-27 10:47         ` git doesn't finds the parent of a commit (was: How to fetch missing pack) Jörg Sommer
2008-04-27 17:37           ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-04-27 20:18             ` git doesn't finds the parent of a commit Junio C Hamano
2008-04-27 21:46               ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-04-28 14:14             ` Jörg Sommer

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