On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:57:04PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> wrote:
quoted text > $ cat .git/objects/info/alternates
> ../../../glibc/.git/objects
> ../../../../O/work.new/.git/objects
> $ git repack -a
> Counting objects: 18670, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (7655/7655), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (18670/18670), done.
> Total 18670 (delta 10218), reused 18670 (delta 10218)
> $ mv .git/objects/info/alternates{,.DEFUNCT}
> $ git branch
> error: refs/remotes/grubber/master does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/remotes/sourceware/cvs/fedora-2_3-branch does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/remotes/sourceware/cvs/fedora-2_5-branch does not point to a valid object!
> [...]
> error: refs/tags/cvs/sparc-980522-merge does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/cvs/start does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/master-2008-11-27 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/master-2009-02-10 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/tags/master-2009-07-10 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/top-bases/t/IOCTL_decode_argument does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/top-bases/t/IOCTL_types does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/top-bases/t/____longjmp_chk_cleanup_linux_x86_64 does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/top-bases/t/bits_posix_opt.h__POSIX_THREADS does not point to a valid object!
> error: refs/top-bases/t/bits_pthreadtypes.h does not point to a valid object!
> baseline
> posix/regex_internal.c/MAX_undefined
> t/IOCTL_decode_argument
> t/IOCTL_types
> t/____longjmp_chk
> t/____longjmp_chk_cleanup_linux_x86_64
> t/__rtld_lock_recursive_t
> [...]
> t/verify.h
> * tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker
What git version are you using?
It seems to work for me:
$ mkdir s
$ cd s
$ git init
$ echo a > a
$ git add a
$ git commit -m i
$ cd ..
$ git clone -s s c
$ cd c
$ git repack -a
$ mv .git/objects/info/alternates .git/objects/info/alternates.orig
$ git branch
* master
