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Re: Bug: Pulling remotes into an empty repo deletes the index

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 3, 2013, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20130803165728.GB2893@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130803163915.GB945@analysisandsolutions.com>
Daniel Convissor wrote:
> All is not lost.  Your local files should be stored in the repository's
> reflog.  Examine the output of "git reflog".  You can then reset your
> working directory to obtain those files by doing something _like_
> "git reset --hard HEAD@{1}".
Adam hadn't made a commit, so that wouldn't work in this case.

"git fsck --lost-found" should be helpful, but yeah, this is a bug. See for example [1] for the start of a patch to play with (needs tests).

Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/196502/focus=196503
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  1. Adam AAug 3, 2013
  2. Daniel ConvissorAug 3, 2013
  3. Jonathan NiederAug 3, 2013
  4. Daniel ConvissorAug 3, 2013
  5. Adam AAug 3, 2013
  6. Jeff KingAug 10, 2013
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