Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I wanted to explode a pack because I'm starting work on an Eclipse
> plugin for GIT. I thought I'd try going down the road of letting
> the plugin read the repository directly, and write loose objects
> directly, but leave pack construction to the native C code. So I
> tried to clone my local GIT repository to a new directory (thus
> had no loose objects at all) and unpack it to get loose objects.
> That didn't go so well. :-)
Before "git-repack -a" was invented, I used to do this by hand:
$ mkdir ./++preserve
$ mv .git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack ./++preserve
$ for p in ./++preserve/pack-*.pack
do git-unpack-objects <$p; done
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