Re: how to recover a repository

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 17, 2010, 04:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20101217044530.GA8590@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012162024020.22269@asgard.lang.hm>

Hi David,

david@lang.hm wrote:

> I managed to do a 'rm *' in the .git directory (the usual sort of
> fat-fingering when cleaning up after another mistake)
> 
> the subdirectories are still there.

I'd suggest:

 1. Make a backup!
 2. From the worktree (i.e. parent to the .git directory),
    run "git init".
 3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)
 4. git reset;	# (alas, the old index file is gone)
 5. git diff; gitk --all

See gitrepository-layout(7) for details.