>2009/5/16 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx>: >>/ On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM, David H. Lynch J.r <ml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:/ >>/> A few days ago I did an/ >>/> git svn rebase/ >>/>/ >>/> The rebase took a while and after it completed reported/ >>/> fatal: bad object HEAD/ > >We had this come up about once a week when using http as the >transport. After switching most people over to ssh the problems >disappeared. We never managed to find out why. I am using an ssh link >/> git status reports/ >/> root@hp-dhlii:/usr/src/pico/git# git status/ >/> # Not currently on any branch./ >/> fatal: bad object HEAD/ >/>/ >/> and git fsck reports/ >/> root@hp-dhlii:/usr/src/pico/git# git fsck/ >/> dangling blob eb3afb4aa3aaf0003bac601a5db4fd76aafa2a87/ >/> dangling commit 5c496db25007c17c325f294bb8324097c9bc407d/ >/>/ >/> How can I recover without downloading the entire repository again which/ >/> could take days?/ > >/ I don't know how this would happen; it would be great if you could/ >/ find reproduction steps and send them in, or if you had the complete/ >/ git rebase log, some of which probably explains the problem. Aparently I can reproduce this. I have a git repository that is about a year old. I have made a local copy of it, and tried to run git svn update on it. After downloading tons of commits it fails in the same way. if there a way to do a step by step git svn rebase - somethng vaguely like git bisect - some way to zero in on the commit that is screwing things up ? Or some way to get a log from the rebase AFTER the repository has become trashed /> >/ You can probably recover your pre-rebased repository using 'git/ >/ reflog'. git reflog replies fatal error bad HEAD > Look through the reflog to find the commit you want, then do/ >/ something like/ > >/ git checkout whatever-the-commit-id-was-that-you-got-from-git-reflog/ > >/ and then optionally/ > >/ git checkout -b master/ > >/ Good luck./ > >/ Avery/ >/ --/ >/ To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in/ >/ the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ >/ More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html