Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I start to see suspicious messages about missing objects in one of my working
> repositories:
>
> | vixen$ git gc
> | error: Could not read c406ab0be69c912ea59233595a071478103cdad8
> | fatal: bad tree object c406ab0be69c912ea59233595a071478103cdad8
> | error: failed to run repack
> | vixen$
>
> My setup:
> - I have one reference repository (cloned from Linus' linux-2.6.git)
> - I have several working repositories, cloned using --reference to my
> reference repository. A working repository has several remotes (cloned from
> other Linux kernel repositories).
>
> I always do a `git pull' in the reference repository, before doing a `git
> remote update' in a working repository. When I do `git gc' in a working
> repository, it cleans up all objects that are not in the reference repository.
> Hence I only need to care about backup of the .git directories in the working
> repositories (the stuff I'm working on), and not about the reference
> repository (its objects are publicly available and replicated all over the
> world).
>
> I identified the missing object listed above to be part of a remote repository.
> Doing a `git remote update' doesn't fetch it again, as git is too smart and
> thinks I already have everything.
>
> If I clone the remote repository, I have the object in the new clone.
> However, how do I get the missing object back into the .git directory of my
> working repository?
In the new clone:
$ IT=c406ab0be69c912ea59233595a071478103cdad8
$ TYPE=$(git cat-file -t $IT)
$ git cat-file $TYPE $IT >/var/tmp/$IT.raw
Go to the repository that lacks the object and then
$ git hash-object -t $TYPE -w --stdin </var/tmp/$IT.raw
After that you may find objects that $IT needs to reference. You can
obviously repeat the above procedure until you have nothing missing.
I also suspect you could do this instead; I haven't thought things through
and that is why I say "suspect" but this is safe (i.e. not destructive)
and may worth a try.
In the new clone:
$ IT=c406ab0be69c912ea59233595a071478103cdad8
$ H=$(git rev-list --objects $IT | git pack-objects mine)
$ mv mine-$H.pack /var/tmp
Go to the repository that lacks the object and then
$ git unpack-objects </var/tmp/mine-$H.pack
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