Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

From: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
Date: Mar 21, 2014, 16:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20140321164651.GD2965@fu.192.168.200.1>
In-Reply-To: <20140321163628.GA28121@ruderich.org>

On 21-03-2014 17:36:28, Simon Ruderich wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > Unfortunetely, we wrote our `make clean` task recursively. I think you
> > can imagine what went wrong: The clean-task corrupted the repository,
> > as it removed .idx files from within .git/.
> >
> > I lost work because of this ugly name collision.
>
> Hello Matthias,
>
> You can recreate the .idx files by running
>
>     git index-pack .git/objects/pack/pack-<hash>.pack
>
> for each pack file.

Hi Simon,

I think so. I executed:

    git fsck # reports N missing blobs, commits, trees and dangling stuff
    git index-pack ...
    git fsck # reports only dangling commits and blobs

I don't know if this means that the repository is fixed now?

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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