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Re: dangling blob which is not dangling at all

From
DADomenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2007, 06:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20070801063209.GA13511@raptus.dandreoli.com>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.0.999.0707311914570.4161@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:22:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > 
> > $ git fsck --no-reflogs
> > dangling blob e5d444e61b834c34710ce8fb5cb176e20e5894e1
> >
> > $ git-ls-tree 70b58535361eb633d44d4f1275af3421ca6a5ed7
> > ...
> > 100644 blob e5d444e61b834c34710ce8fb5cb176e20e5894e1    link_stream.c
> 
> Have you done clones with stupid protocols (rsync and/or http)?

I do not remember having used any dump transport on this repository but I recall having tried git-repack with the intent of git gc.

> So try "git fsck --full", and see if that changes the picture.
This did not change anything.
> The easiest fixup is likely to just do "git gc", which which do a nice 
> repack, and get rid of loose objects that are duplicates of stuff 
> that is also in a pack-file.

This fixed things and also warned about two heads referring to pruned commits, which may be those two commits I removed by hand (I hope).

Cheers, Domenico

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