From: Nicolas Ferre Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:06:55 GMT Subject: error: packfile while git fsck Message-ID: <48FF337F.3050505@atmel.com> Hi all, (please cc me on response) I am facing error during git status & git fsck on my tree. This tree is cloned from various linux kernel trees. Here are a sample of the error I see : $ git fsck error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index [..] error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed dangling blob fe130d58453393f15e0db82bca18f35998689a87 dangling commit 2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed dangling commit 6bb7a935489dab20802dde6c2cb7d8582f4849bf error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed dangling commit 4aba41ea8bdc1b475861f5e5c1649ab20251090c error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed [..] $ git verify-pack .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack nferre@bendor:linux-2.6-arm > git verify-pack .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack does not match index fatal: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-2ab31ad1f8cb69d091a56fe936634e4796606d49.pack cannot be accessed What can I do to recover my git archive ? Did I do something wrong (merging files while fetching) ? Is it related to a known issue (I cannot figure out if it is after some googling) ? Thanks for your help. Regards, -- Nicolas Ferre