git-annex-repair - recover broken git repository
git annex repair
This can repair many of the problems with git repositories that
git fsck
detects, but does not itself fix. It's useful if a repository has become badly
damaged. One way this can happen is if a repository used by git-annex is on a
removable drive that gets unplugged at the wrong time.
This command can actually be used inside git repositories that do not use
git-annex at all; when used in a repository using git-annex, it does
additional repairs of the git-annex branch.
It works by deleting any corrupt objects from the git repository, and retrieving
all missing objects it can from the remotes of the repository.
If that is not sufficient to fully recover the repository, it can also reset
branches back to commits before the corruption happened, delete branches that
are no longer available due to the lost data, and remove any missing files
from the index. It will only do this if run with the
--force option,
since that rewrites history and throws out missing data. Note that the
--force option never touches tags, even if they are no longer usable
due to missing data.
After running this command, you will probably want to run
git fsck to
verify it fixed the repository. Note that fsck may still complain about
objects referenced by the reflog, or the stash, if they were unable to be
recovered. This command does not try to clean up either the reflog or the
stash.
It is also a good idea to run
git annex fsck --fast after this command,
to make sure that the git-annex branch reflects reality.
- --force
- Enable repair actions that involve deleting data that has
been lost due to git repository corruption.
- Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
git-annex(1)
git-annex-fsck(1)
Joey Hess <
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