From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recovering a corrupted git repo
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:33:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2zRsJgUf9+EoCDURL4ywQFyPLTkQEGK1Af73m7e=ct5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EA44BA.2030107@ubuntu.com>
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I have not had any issue until I ran a git fsck recently, which
> repored gzip and crc errors in some pack files. git fsck does not
> seem to repair the errors, only report them. I would like to try to
> rebuild my repository, without downloading any more from the origin
> than I have to. All of the commits I have added seem to still be
> intact, so I assume the corruption in somewhere in the upstream
> history packs.
>
> How can I correct the errors, and fetch the corrupted upstream
> history, while preserving my patches? So far I have exported my
> patches as bundles, and made a fresh clone from upstream, then pulled
> the bundles back in, but there must be a better way that only fetches
> the corrupted bits from upstream?
The documentation about fixing broken repo is this one:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#fix-broken-repo
Hope this helps,
Christian.
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