gerrit broken / missing commit

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

OK; the tar is 1.5GB!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 07:40:56PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> Hi Lionel,
> 
> Apparently during the gerrit outage, something really bad happened, and
> we lost a commit that is in the gerrit database, but not in gerrit's
> git.
> 
> It's this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/a9da257bf9f57fdbfd0f400b30080abc4d582ec1
> 
> but there is no way to obtain it again - even though something like the
> following should do it, it does not :-(
> 
> [with the github repo:]
> 
> git fetch origin a9da257bf9f57fdbfd0f400b30080abc4d582ec1:refs/remotes/origin/foo-commit
> error: refs/remotes/origin/feature/gtkbmptiledviewer2 does not point to a valid object!
> 
> Please do you still have this commit?  If yes, please immediately do
> 
> git checkout -b save-the-world a9da257bf9f57fdbfd0f400b30080abc4d582ec1
> 
> so that this commit gets referenced (and not lost with the next git gc),
> and then just create a tarball of your .git, and upload it for us
> somewhere - we'll extract the needed object files from there, and put to
> gerrit's git...
> 
> Thank you a lot,
> Kendy
> 
>