Re: gc considered dangerous

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Feb 8, 2009, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <BD926B5C-60C2-4A62-9BBC-E31CB26B9BAC@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <200902081704.59439.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> söndag 08 februari 2009 15:56:38 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen this. Running git gc on Windows, while having Elipse  
>>> open can
>>> kill your object database.
>>
>> You had me really scared with the mail subject!
>
> Losing a repo *is* scary., especially if your boss is the one losing  
> it.
> That should simply not happen unless there is a disk failure.  
> Fortunately
> I believe the two lost branches did not contain anything useful.

If you have a backup of the corrupted repository right after it got corrupted, you can create an index by running "git index-pack" on the pack that is lacking an index. This might rescue the lost branches.

	Steffen