From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:23:47 GMT
Subject: Re: How to replace a single corrupt, packed object?
Message-ID: <20080808162347.GD9152@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808081716010.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > my auto gc kicked in, and shows this:
> > > > 
> > > > fatal: corrupt packed object for 2c1e128aa51e3a64bd61556c0cd488628b423ccf
> > > > error: failed to run repack

Here's another idea.

You have the good object loose.  So do something like this:

  $ mkdir foo
  $ cd foo
  $ git init
  $ cp ../../the_good_loose_obj .git/objects/??/....

  $ cd ../corrupt_repo
  $ (
   cd ../foo;
   echo blob; 
   echo data $(git cat-file -s the_good_loose_obj);
   git cat-file blob the_good_loose_obj;
  ) | git fast-import
  $ git repack -a -d

The new pack file created by gfi will have a newer timestamp than the
one with the corruption.  This will cause it to sort higher in the
pack list, and we'll take objects from the first pack we find it in.

-- 
Shawn.