Re: Recover broken git index?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: May 28, 2009, 09:01 UTC
Message-ID: <4A1E52FD.6090801@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <4A1DB700.4080705@bcm.edu>

Misha Koshelev wrote:

> Hi, I seem to have an unrecoverable git index. I have attached the
> output of git-fsck --full. There seem to be a lot of missing trees and
> blobs. Any good way to recover?
>

Start by copying the repository somewhere safe so you don't accidentally delete things in it.

If it's really the index that's broken, a simple

  git checkout master && git reset --hard

should do the trick.

If it doesn't, it's not the index that's at fault.

Have you done history surgery on this repository (extensive rebasing or filter-branch'ing)?

Answers to the questions below really should have been in your original post. Please include them if we're to be able to understand what's going on: What OS and platform are you using? What git version are you using? How did you first notice this? What were you doing when you first noticed this? Is your repository working correctly otherwise (ie, do you only spot these errors when you run "git fsck --full")?

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