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Re: I have gone and done a bad thing - malformed tree objects

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2020, 00:52 UTC
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"Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us> writes:
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> I was trying to "do stuff" using hash-object -t tree --stdin -w,
> but I accidentally created trees where other trees were marked as
> blobs. They were dangling and not connected to any actual commits
> on my branches.
>
> After gc and fsck clean ups, everything reports well...
>
> Except:
>
> $ GIT_TRACE=1 git cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch=objecttype

gc and fsck may not have pruned the dangling object yet, but --batch-all-objects is a request to enumerate objects that exist in the repository, regardless of their reachability from any ref.

Perhaps "git prune --expire=now" would get rid of it?
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