From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Corruption in the repository
Message-ID: <20101214191901.GA7257@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1292255990.25237.27642.camel@korcula.inria.fr>

Sylvestre Ledru wrote:

> error: refs/changes/98/398/1 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/changes/98/398/2 does not point to a valid object!
> fatal: object cff52c24fba28408e7d021a8f35a717bef31521d is corrupted
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Ah, should have thought of this sooner.  There doesn't seem to be
corruption involved after all.

> Does anyone know how to repair this error ?

Use git from the "master" branch to consolidate pack files:

	~/src/git/bin-wrappers/git repack -a -d

Details are in f2e872aa5 (Work around EMFILE when there are too many
pack files, 2010-11-01), which will likely be part of git 1.7.4.
Thanks for reporting and sorry for the trouble.

Jonathan