git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Add --ignore-missing to git-pack-objects?

From
Cch <cr@onlinehome.de>
Date
Aug 14, 2017, 22:51 UTC
Message-ID
<7d7a5801-1418-cc03-6d88-c148a38fccec@onlinehome.de>
Hi.

Is it possible to add an option akin to git-rev-list's '--ignore-missing' to git-pack-objects?

I use git bundles to (incrementally) backup my repositories. My script inspects all bundles in the backup and passes their contained refs as excludes to git-pack-objects to build the pack for the new bundle. This works fine as long as none of these refs have been garbage-collected in the source repository. Something like '--ignore-missing' would be really handy here to ask git-pack-objects to simply ignore any of the passed revs that are not present (anymore).

Thanks in advance.
Next: Jeff King
Message 1 of 3 in “Add --ignore-missing to git-pack-objects?”
  1. chAug 14, 2017
  2. Jeff KingAug 20, 2017
  3. chAug 20, 2017

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.