Re: corrupted Git repository

From: Kasra Khosoussi <kasra.mail@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2011, 09:30 UTC
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=WVTGcGkUXjkuPYcxhMY0a5KPB7g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E005404.5010901@drmicha.warpmail.net>

> Backup now!
> I guess you've done that meanwhile anyways, but it's important before
> any recovery attempts.

Yes, I've done that.

> Is your reflog OK, i.e. do you get proper output from "git reflog" or
> "git log -g"?

No. Before moving the corrupted object git reflog would return: fatal: object 0a83757505387aacc2fd36b3c996729e6bf9d6e5 is corrupted

and after moving the file it would say: fatal: bad object HEAD

> .git/objects/0a83... probably

Yes, it was a typo.

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> The reflog will give you the previous value of HEAD. You can set
> refs/heads/master to that (git update-ref) and then rebuild the lost
> commit on top of that (assuming only one commit is lost). The dangling
> trees are not necessarily due to the corrupt commit object. Have you
> changed any files since the corrupt commit?

Yes, I've changed two files after the last commit (I knew about the corruption when I was just about to commit the changes).

> Do you remember which files
> you changed in that commit?
>
> Michael

If the the corrupt commit is the last one, yes.

Thanks.

-- Kasra