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Re: Recovering from repository corruption

From
Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 10, 2008, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID
<6dbd4d000806101335y5bb7660cge5bbaf571ebce98e@mail.gmail.com>
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<200806102214.40805.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 16:14, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please remember that in such clone you _don't_ have grafts info (unless
> you copy it manually), so it is a good test if you correctly rewrote
> history using git-filter-branch.  So take a look at history in your
> clone using gitk or some similar tool.
>
> In the history you mentioned:
>
>    ...---a---*   b---c---d---*   e---...
>           \     /         \     /
>            \-X-/           \---/
>
> you should rewritr from 'a'=='X^' to, and including 'e' (and not only
> from 'd').
So I re-did the filter-branch as:
    git-filter-branch HEAD
28aa69aafc8ae901e588f6d341b3e6d3558c6d26^..163a93df14d246dee91c3a503e6372b8313f337d
Now cloning still works and only shows dangling commits --- no errors!
-- 
                              Denis
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  1. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  3. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  5. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  7. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  9. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  11. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  13. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  14. TarmiganJun 10, 2008
  15. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  16. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  17. Linus TorvaldsJun 10, 2008
  18. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2008
  19. Linus TorvaldsJun 11, 2008
  20. Nicolas PitreJun 11, 2008
  21. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2008
  23. To graft or not to graft... (Re: Recovering from repository corruption)Stephen R. van den Berg, Jun 11, 2008
  24. Jakub NarebskiJun 11, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsJun 11, 2008
  26. Johan HerlandJun 12, 2008
  27. Jeff KingJun 12, 2008
  28. Johan HerlandJun 12, 2008
  29. Stephen R. van den BergJun 12, 2008
  30. Nicolas PitreJun 10, 2008
  31. Denis BuenoJun 10, 2008

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