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Albert Iordache
Albert Iordache

Reputation: 407

Git Missing Commit error

We recently changed the location of a repository, and we discovered a months-old commit is missing from the files. The old server we had the Git on is down, so there is no chance of recovering the commit from there.

Here's the error I get:

$ git fsck --full
broken link from commit 58ba71d080b1814420bce09c4e505b323fd9cb58
to commit a2e2bde363032b7609616a3152fe048cc5c83715

missing commit a2e2bde363032b7609616a3152fe048cc5c83715

Is there anything that can be done to fix this? Thank you!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10821

Answers (2)

Jan Hudec
Jan Hudec

Reputation: 76266

Every clone has full history so anyone who worked on that project since the commit was published should have it on their computer. Look inside anyone's working directory for the commit then add it's packs and objects (content of the .git/objects directory) to the broken repository (only files that don't exist), fsck again and repack.

It's not possible to reconstruct the object if you don't find it anywhere.

Upvotes: 10

Satish Z
Satish Z

Reputation: 27

Remove the .git directory from application directory. Create the new one using "git init" inside your application root directory and continue with 

"git add ."
"git commit -m your comment" 
"git push origin master"

Hope this will work!!!

Upvotes: -8

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