From: Michael Hendricks Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:30:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates Message-ID: <20071022233050.GA18430@ginosko.ndrix.org> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:05:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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 -- Michael