Re: StGIT 0.13 recognizes but not list packed StGIT controlled branches

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2007, 00:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpry7t88g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200711190005.49990.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> So the question is: how to unpack branches, and how to prevent
> branches from being packed by "git-gc"?

I am afraid that is a wrong question. How long have we had the packed-refs anyway?

The question is "How to get the list of refs from a Porcelain if it wants to be compatible with GIT v1.4.4-rc1 (Nov 7, 2006) and later?", and the answer is for-each-ref.

Having said that, you could explode it by hand like this:

	git for-each-ref --format='%(objectname) %(refname)' refs/heads |
	while read sha1 refname
        do
        	test -f "$GIT_DIR/$refname" || 
               	git update-ref "$refname" "$sha1"
	done