From: Mathias Lafeldt <misfire@debugon.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:42:32 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Message-ID: <4CC97DC8.1010508@debugon.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101028T150254-457@post.gmane.org>

Todd Wells wrote:
> I was using GitX to prepare a commit. Something happened -- I don't 
> know what --  and suddenly my branch only had a single commit 
> in it that appears to contain all  the files in my tree. So I went to the 
> command line and did this:
> 
> $ git reset --soft HEAD^ 
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not 
> in the working tree.
> 
> When I do 'git log' in this branch, there's only one commit. Now, I 
> had many commits in this branch a few minutes ago. I really, 
> really, don't want to lose this.
> 
> What steps should I take to attempt to recover?

Check if you can reset your HEAD to a previous state saved in your
(local) reflog.

See section "RefLog Shortnames" in http://progit.org/book/ch6-1.html

-Mathias