Re: How to recovery a corrupted git repo

Ping Yin [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks. This should be an applicable method. However, before rsyncing,
the pack should be unpacked first.

No need. Just copying the pack files works too, and is way faster:

/tmp/corrupted$ git fsck
missing commit 4815c2955d5863005edc4ff61c0de42e9609a920
dangling tree c8b826f673e1f1edb0fb5dc58294148be06cd6cb
/tmp/corrupted$ cp ../cloned/.git/objects/pack/pack-e34444a471a9cd3e6f2656b609ffa0d66cce1f9c.* .git/objects/pack/
/tmp/corrupted$ git fsck                                                                                         
/tmp/corrupted$ git gc
Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (12/12), done.
Total 12 (delta 0), reused 12 (delta 0)

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Matthieu Moy
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Matthieu Moy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Ping Yin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Thanks. This should be an applicable method. However, before rsyncing,
the pack should be unpacked first.

No need. Just copying the pack files works too, and is way faster:

Great, thanks.