Re: Recovery after interrupted repack

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On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 12:15 +0300, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I interrupted git repack -a -f -d and now most commands say "fatal:
> bad object HEAD".  Additionally an attempt to run git repack again
> says a bunch of "error: refs/heads/foo does not point to a valid
> object!" messages.
> 
> git fsck prints a huge list of "missing blob <sha-1>" lines.
> 
> I'm using a Cygwin build of git 1.7.5.1 (I also have a build of the
> latest master available).

Was the result any different after running git fsck on it? If all else
fails you can probably still use the contents of the reflog to fix
things, but I'm not the best reference on such matters.

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