Tag Archives: repository

Fixing a broken Git repository

Posted by on November 10, 2014 1 comment

After having several hard kernel crashes, some of my files ended up empty on my disk. I then got errors like:

error: object file .git/objects/81/b43db0dadcafe18eef75c60c57cc496d523d83 is empty
error: object file .git/objects/fb/9b5b3daa56c7833be66f0eaac2b5a906474627 is empty

I can recommend this Wiki page on kernel.org which tells how recovery basically should be done. This post shows some of those steps a bit more “hands-on”. I started with moving this corrupt (empty) object away, and then got this message when doing some git operations:

fatal: unable to read 81b43db0dadcafe18eef75c60c57cc496d523d83

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Subversion: Move folder from one repository to another

Posted by on November 12, 2011 No comments

A branch of a project went into a totally different direction. Therfor I wanted to move that specific folder into a new repository e.g.:

svn://myserver/repo1/branches/crazyrefactor/
svn://myserver/repo2/trunk/

To archive this there are several steps needed. You will need shell access to the server where the repository is located.

  1. Backup the source repository (creating a dump) and filter the specific source folder
  2. Create the new repository and the folder structure
  3. Import the dump file into the new repository
  4. Move the folder to trunk Read more »