Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 23, 2007, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710230112131.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071022233050.GA18430@ginosko.ndrix.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:05:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> > > Was such a script ever incorporated into Git?
> > 
> > Not that I know of, but "git repack -a && rm
> > .git/objects/info/alternates" should do what you want.  You can even
> > make a script of it, add some documentation and a test case, and earn
> > git fame by posting a patch ;-)
> 
> With 1.5.3.4, it doesn't appear to work:
> 
>  $ git clone -s git git2
>  Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/michael/src/git2/.git/
> 
>  $ cd git2
> 
>  $ git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates
>  Generating pack...
>  Done counting 0 objects.
>  Nothing new to pack.
> 
>  $ git status
>  # On branch master
>  fatal: bad object HEAD

Indeed. Seems that somewhere along the line, repack learnt to imply "-l" by "-a" or something. Try this instead of "git repack -a":

	git rev-parse --all |
		git pack-objects --revs .git/objects/pack/pack

(And make sure you read the relevant parts of the documentation to understand what you're doing ;-)

Hth, Dscho