Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

From

Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>

Date

Mar 21, 2014, 16:36 UTC

Message-ID

<20140321163628.GA28121@ruderich.org>

In-Reply-To

<20140321161324.GC2965@fu.192.168.200.1>

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:

> Unfortunetely, we wrote our `make clean` task recursively. I think you
> can imagine what went wrong: The clean-task corrupted the repository,
> as it removed .idx files from within .git/.
>
> I lost work because of this ugly name collision.

Hello Matthias,

You can recreate the .idx files by running

    git index-pack .git/objects/pack/pack-<hash>.pack

for each pack file.

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