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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.git/packed-refs???
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:16:10 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:27:03AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I noticed while scanning #git log that it appears that pack-refs
> was run in your public repo and some people cannot clone over
> dumb protocols with older git.
> 
>     commit 2986c02217f98809d8990e7679edf0f5d99f904d
>     Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>     Date:   Wed Nov 22 22:24:09 2006 -0800
> 
>     git-fetch: fix dumb protocol transport to fetch from pack-pruned ref
> 
> was the first revision that aligned dumb protocol clients with
> pack-ref; unfortunately anything older will not find the ref
> that was packed.

Stupid question.  Suppose someone has run git pack-refs on a
repository.  What is the recommended way to reverse the process.  Is
the answer is to clone the repository and then throw away the original
one?  Is there another way to do it?

						- Ted