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Re: how to recover a repository

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 17, 2010, 21:22 UTC
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<20101217212201.GC11511@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.1012171218450.18272@asgard.lang.hm>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:20:56PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
> >3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)
> 
> I was on the default branch but if I do 'git update-ref HEAD
> refs/heads/master' I get an error 'not a valid SHA1'
That should be "git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master".
-Peff
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