Re: Broken index file - any hope?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 3, 2008, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20081003220750.GY21310@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <48E696CB.6040405@gmx.de>

Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Shawn O. Pearce schrieb:
>>   git read-tree --reset HEAD
> Sadly, this doesnt help. I still get the same error.
> But, if I remove the corrupt index file, I get this:
>
> fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?

Yea, so that sounds like "git log" doesn't work because HEAD isn't pointing at a valid branch.

> Does not look like a good sign :/
> Are all my branches (branch==tree?) gone? (okay, werent that much)

Yes, a branch contains a series of trees. The current tree of a branch is the tree of the most recent commit on that branch.

They may be gone.

-- 
Shawn.