From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:56:45 GMT
Subject: Re: corrupt object on git-gc
Message-ID: <4734590D.6000104@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <6C2C79E72C305246B504CBA17B5500C9029A36F2@mtlexch01.mtl.com>

Yossi Leybovich wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  I know its loose but still I think there are references in the
> repository to this object.
> How I can remove it from the repository ?
> 
> 
> sleybo@SLEYBO-LT /w/work/EMC/ib.071030.001/ib
> $ mv .git/objects/4b ..
> 

That was not a very good idea. You just moved ALL objects whose hash
begin with 4b out of the object database.

Try only moving the offending file out of the 4b directory.

> sleybo@SLEYBO-LT /w/work/EMC/ib.071030.001/ib
> $ git-fsck --full
>               to    blob 4b920d658a05a66a9d18dd34b51d6e3a9f229ce1
>               to  commit 4b1aabfe3ecc12007535369a2ba17bcee776df64
>               to    blob 4b920d658a05a66a9d18dd34b51d6e3a9f229ce1
>               to    tree 4b89da873ce6e1b36a818d70d4665b3074f2354c
>               to    blob 4b920d658a05a66a9d18dd34b51d6e3a9f229ce1>

Notice how all of these start with 4b? Move the directory back and
get rid of just the object that causes errors.

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