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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.git/packed-refs???
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:41:24 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702131937240.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213181610.GA2782@thunk.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> 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?

The easiest way I found here was to do

git-for-each-ref | while read sha1 tag name; do
	git update-ref -m "undo pack-ref" $name $sha1
done

Beware: this is tested once, and copied from memory.

Ciao,
Dscho

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-13 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-13  9:27 linux-2.6.git/packed-refs??? Junio C Hamano
2007-02-13  9:48 ` [PATCH] Do not run git-pack-refs by default for now from git-gc Junio C Hamano
2007-02-13 10:03   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-13 10:29     ` Jeff King
2007-02-13 10:55       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-13 17:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-13 13:01       ` [PATCH] git-gc: run pack-refs by default unless the repo is bare Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-13 18:16 ` linux-2.6.git/packed-refs??? Theodore Tso
2007-02-13 18:41   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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