From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:16:48 GMT
Subject: Re: rebuild repo from data, packfiles?
Message-ID: <20101121001643.GB27666@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000024044659@sci.utah.edu>

Hi Tom,

tom fogal wrote:

> Long story short, I lost some metadata in a repo I've got.  However,
> my entire .git/objects/ && subdirs is intact, so I'm hopeful my data's
> still accessible in some form.

Here's what I'd suggest.

 1. Backup what you have.
 2. git init newrepo
 3. rsync -a .git/refs .git/objects .git/packed-refs newrepo/.git/
 4. cd newrepo && git fsck --lost-found

See the repository-layout manual page[1] for details.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrepository-layout.html