Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:05:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> > Was such a script ever incorporated into Git?
>
> Not that I know of, but "git repack -a && rm
> .git/objects/info/alternates" should do what you want. You can even
> make a script of it, add some documentation and a test case, and earn
> git fame by posting a patch ;-)
With 1.5.3.4, it doesn't appear to work:
$ git clone -s git git2
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/michael/src/git2/.git/
$ cd git2
$ git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates
Generating pack...
Done counting 0 objects.
Nothing new to pack.
$ git status
# On branch master
fatal: bad object HEAD
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Michael
Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>