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[Question] Git recovery with HEAD commit broken

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SWShilong Wang <wangshilong1991@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2013, 14:38 UTC
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I am not a developer for git, but i am a regular user with git, i came the following problem:

A power off cause my top commit broken, and then git branch/log/reflog..etc won't work. I do a hack that i change the HEAD commit to the one that i can make sure is right, and then i do:

# git reset --hard HEAD

In fact, i hope git fsck can fix up such problems(maybe can backup top commit for example)... Someone has faced such problems or have some suggestion for this?

Thanks, Wang

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