Re: git-unpack-objects < pack file in repository doesn't work!

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 7, 2006, 02:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20060307022926.GB29180@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603070213.02805.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:

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> It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature. It should be documented as 
> "git-unpack-objects < $pack; rm $pack" is something one would deem correct at 
> first glance (luckily I just moved the pack away and did git-fsck-cache).
> 
> To write an object, git-unpack-objects ends in
> 
> unpack-objects.c:write_object -> sha1_file.c:write_sha1_file:
> 
>         /* Normally if we have it in the pack then we do not bother writing
>          * it out into .git/objects/??/?{38} file.
>          */
> 
> This indeed works, so the files aren't unpacked.

Funny, I just did the exact same thing today, scratched my head and said ``what did I just do!?!?!'' as I had deleted the pack before discovering that nothing was actually unpacked. *sigh* At least it was a clone of the real repository and thus didn't matter to me.

I totally didn't expect that behavior. But I should have. It makes perfect sense.

-- 
Shawn.