Re: Recovering from missing objects?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 20, 2009, 02:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20090220025810.GB22419@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdr6j6hz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:29:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > If I clone the remote repository, I have the object in the new clone.
> > However, how do I get the missing object back into the .git directory of my
> > working repository?
> [...]
> In the new clone:
> 
> 	$ IT=c406ab0be69c912ea59233595a071478103cdad8
> 	$ H=$(git rev-list --objects $IT | git pack-objects mine)
>         $ mv mine-$H.pack /var/tmp
> 
> Go to the repository that lacks the object and then
> 
> 	$ git unpack-objects </var/tmp/mine-$H.pack

Might it not be simpler to just copy or hardlink the pack from the new clone into the old directory's .git/objects/pack? That will get more than you need, but things should start working, at which point a "git repack -a -d" will make it small again.

Or am I misunderstanding something?

-Peff