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

From: Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2013, 16:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20130803165923.GD945@analysisandsolutions.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130803163915.GB945@analysisandsolutions.com>

Hey Again Adam:

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:39:15PM -0400, Daniel Convissor wrote:

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> 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}".

A further thought. The most useful thing to do would probably be along these lines...

git reflog # as mentioned before git checkout -b myinitialstuff HEAD@{<desired number>} git log git checkout master git cherry-pick <hash of your first local commit>

--Dan

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