On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Might it not be simpler to just copy or hardlink the pack from the new > > clone into the old directory's .git/objects/pack? That will get more > > than you need, but things should start working, at which point a "git > > repack -a -d" will make it small again. > > > > Or am I misunderstanding something? > > If you already have a good clone and a half-broken one locally, of course, > what you said is the easiest. > > I just assumed that Geert did not really want to copy the whole pack. > Maybe he doesn't mind in this particular case, but the next breakage may > involve gigapacks he'd rather not re-clone. Ah, OK. I had the impression that he had already made a new valid clone on the local box. > I also assumed that anybody who is reading the message can easily guess > that the copy I was demonstrating in the description could be done across > machines, instead of via local /var/tmp/, and "In the new clone" steps > could even be done in the original one. Presenting the knowledge that > way, the solution hopefully would be adjustable for more people who are > reading this thread. Makes sense. Thanks. -Peff -- 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
