From: Adam A <hitsthings@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 21:46:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: Pulling remotes into an empty repo deletes the index
Message-ID: <CAJOTJ-D6Aho_NJscXtu74Ok7u5sQmHn_L_Nma_F1kn9O6y95UQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130803165728.GB2893@elie.Belkin>

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Convissor wrote:
>
>> 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}".
>
> Adam hadn't made a commit, so that wouldn't work in this case.
>
> "git fsck --lost-found" should be helpful, but yeah, this is a bug.
> See for example [1] for the start of a patch to play with (needs
> tests).

Ah I didn't realize the objects would still be there! `git fsck` +
`git show` is a wonderful workaround until the bug is fixed.

>
> Thanks and hope that helps,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/196502/focus=196503


Thanks so much guys!
Adam