Re: gerrit broken / missing commit

I did "git tag" instead of "git branch".

The download is at http://people.freedesktop.org/~lmamane/save_the_world.tar

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 08:20:51PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 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