From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel•com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: error: packfile while git fsck
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:18:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490F246D.1040307@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810221323270.26244@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre :
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>
>> Nicolas Pitre :
>>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> (please cc me on response)
>>>>
>>>> I am facing error during git status & git fsck on my tree.
>>>> This tree is cloned from various linux kernel trees.
>>>>
>>>> Here are a sample of the error I see :
>>>>
>>>> $ git fsck
>>>> error: packfile
>>>> .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does
>>>> not
>>>> match index
>>>> error: packfile
>>>> .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack
>>>> cannot be
>>>> accessed
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> What git version?
>> $ git --version
>> git version 1.5.3.7
>
> OK. Since this is not bleeding edge, it is pretty unlikely that the
> corruption is due to git itself. Furthermore, the git packs are always
> read only once they've been created, meaning that if they weren't
> corrupted at some point then something outside of git caused the
> corruption. You really should consider the possible causes for that
> (dying disk, pilot error, etc).
>
> As to recovery... That really depends if you have personal work
> committed to your repository. If not then the easiest solution is
> simply to recreate it by refetching from upstream. If you have
> personal work in there then you could try to fetch your work branch into
> the newly created repository. The latest git version could help with
> the extraction of non-corrupted objects out of a bad pack, but if the
> objects you are interested in are themselves corrupted then your only
> hope is to have a copy of those objects somewhere else.
Nicolas,
Thanks for your help. I will consider migrating to a brand new git tree
with my work imported in (it seems that my local work is not affected).
Just to know, as the object I try to access is not present, is there a
way to rebuild the index to match this mater of fact ?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 14:06 error: packfile while git fsck Nicolas Ferre
2008-10-22 14:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-22 15:22 ` Nicolas Ferre
2008-10-22 17:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-03 16:18 ` Nicolas Ferre [this message]
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