Re: Question about .git/objects/info/alternates

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2010, 02:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20100323024223.GA12257@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <a038bef51003221026i379ee16ej6e0e6defcf0048dd@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Packham wrote:

> I would like to have base somehow find the objects it doesn't have in
> its object store and either download them or just copy them from the
> object store of projecta.

[...]

> From reading [2] I think 'rm
> .git/objects/info/alternates && git repack -a' might do the trick but
> I'm not sure.

Almost.  Try ‘git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates’ instead. :)

(Please back up the repository or try with something less important first, since I am not sure.)

Hope that helps, Jonathan

> [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248228/how-to-detach-alternates-after-git-clone-reference