# recovering a corrupted git repo 2 messages from 2013-01-07 to 2013-01-07. Participants: Phillip Susi, Christian Couder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32547 ## Phillip Susi, 2013-01-07 03:44 Subject: recovering a corrupted git repo Message-ID: <50EA44BA.2030107@ubuntu.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/50EA44BA.2030107%40ubuntu.com ``` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have not had any issue until I ran a git fsck recently, which repored gzip and crc errors in some pack files. git fsck does not seem to repair the errors, only report them. I would like to try to rebuild my repository, without downloading any more from the origin than I have to. All of the commits I have added seem to still be intact, so I assume the corruption in somewhere in the upstream history packs. How can I correct the errors, and fetch the corrupted upstream history, while preserving my patches? So far I have exported my patches as bundles, and made a fresh clone from upstream, then pulled the bundles back in, but there must be a better way that only fetches the corrupted bits from upstream? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ6kS6AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75tFgIAJCI+DEWDVxddEQM5qhmz1y8 3JuqjTHp7gIXmQv6WGbEIehJrRfTBudQn+Ip2jLMwavvL16oZe+cf/uuLo393Z+T pxEcWHOtjdU/XZeQOV//R/Cfo7PY5n8wfasgFYZuFesJchInwFocTI6S5x2B9kIB dvLonoiDQwe9JqQaoAxM0OLTWe9aj0gc3c36+WUlRgRZijUhEogYQwU8aEoa+TMq s2p+tbaNYKocRAafQ4824DMnuQTWb+HJVU4uI1pH2yB964Urq9ELSX2jxeSRdlaH d+AoJ8oMdymmUwPeuyivcmQQHEGGsxxgCOuLSSHh1hcxMaytZNcEkVQ6OzuGyZk= =yUr4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ``` ## Christian Couder, 2013-01-07 09:33 Subject: Re: recovering a corrupted git repo Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAP8UFD2zRsJgUf9%2BEoCDURL4ywQFyPLTkQEGK1Af73m7e%3Dct5w%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <50EA44BA.2030107@ubuntu.com> ``` On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > > I have not had any issue until I ran a git fsck recently, which > repored gzip and crc errors in some pack files. git fsck does not > seem to repair the errors, only report them. I would like to try to > rebuild my repository, without downloading any more from the origin > than I have to. All of the commits I have added seem to still be > intact, so I assume the corruption in somewhere in the upstream > history packs. > > How can I correct the errors, and fetch the corrupted upstream > history, while preserving my patches? So far I have exported my > patches as bundles, and made a fresh clone from upstream, then pulled > the bundles back in, but there must be a better way that only fetches > the corrupted bits from upstream? The documentation about fixing broken repo is this one: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#fix-broken-repo Hope this helps, Christian. ```