From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 23:09:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git-unpack-objects
Message-ID: <7vu089qr4t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0605011552j4189338bx14083657acffc18e@mail.gmail.com>

"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com> writes:

> I was playing around with git repack and decided to "undo" the repack
> I did using git-unpack objects.  Below is the output:
>
> [jwboyer@vader linux-2.6]$ git-unpack-objects <
> .git/objects/pack/pack-497d1e639572013de48eeb00cb95738d2ca959e1.pack
> Unpacking 236950 objects
> 100% (236950/236950) done
> [jwboyer@vader linux-2.6]$ ls -l .git/objects/
> total 8
> drwxrwxr-x 2 jwboyer jwboyer 4096 May  1 17:48 info
> drwxrwxr-x 2 jwboyer jwboyer 4096 May  1 17:48 pack
> [jwboyer@vader linux-2.6]$
>
> As you can see, the objects don't seem to get unpacked back into the
> .git directory.  So either I am misunderstanding what that command is
> supposed to do, or it isn't working properly.
>
> Any ideas?

unpack tries to unpack and if it already has the object it
skips.

If you really wanted to do it, here is a way to do so.

	mv .git/objets/pack/pack-49*.pack \
		.git/objets/pack/pack-49*.idx .
	git unpack-objects <pack-49*.pack