From: Martin Langhoff Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:10:31 GMT Subject: Re: Diagnosing stray/stale .keep files -- explore what is in a pack? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Is there a handy way to list the blobs in a pack, so I can feed them > to git-cat-file and see what's in there? I'm sure that'll help me > narrow down on the issue. git show-index < /var/lib/ppg/reports.git/objects/pack/pack-22748bcca7f50a3a49aa4aed61444bf9c4ced685.idx | cut -d\ -f2 | xargs -iHASH git --git-dir /var/lib/ppg/reports.git/ unpack-file HASH After a bit of looking at the output, clearly I have two clients, out of the many that connect here, that have the problem. I will be looking into those clients to see what's the problem. In my use case, clients push to their own head. Looking at refs/heads shows that there are stale .lock files there. Hmmm. This is on git 1.7.1 (RHEL and CentOS clients). cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff