From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:22:02 GMT
Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
Message-ID: <20101217212201.GC11511@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <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