Re: gc considered dangerous

On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

söndag 08 februari 2009 15:56:38 skrev Johannes Schindelin:

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Hi,

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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I've seen this. Running git gc on Windows, while having Elipse  
open can
kill your object database.

You had me really scared with the mail subject!

Losing a repo *is* scary., especially if your boss is the one losing  
it.
That should simply not happen unless there is a disk failure.  
Fortunately
I believe the two lost branches did not contain anything useful.

If you have a backup of the corrupted repository right after it got
corrupted, you can create an index by running "git index-pack" on
the pack that is lacking an index.  This might rescue the lost
branches.

	Steffen