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[Alex Morega <alex@xxxxxxx>]

On 11 Mar 2010, at 16:51, Matthew Richardson wrote:

> I can't find a
> way of extracting this pack file to make the repository 'useable', and
> I'm not sure how to update the refs for the target repository once this
> has been done (something with repo.refs ?)

There's no need to extract the pack; Git and Dulwich can read objects straight from a pack file.

You still need to create refs in the local repository; this can be done by setting an entry in git.refs:
    git.refs['refs/heads/master'] = commit_id

Where commit_id is the (hex?) id of the remote master. This updates the branch ref directly on disk.

There might be a way to do all of this automatically; hopefully somebody more knowledgeable than me will chime in :)

Cheers,
-- Alex