From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:57:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: Pulling remotes into an empty repo deletes the index
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