From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:09:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Worktree silently deleted on git fetch/gc/log
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSGJhNR8dapLXN0TU8ZpTqi7m6OQf_cCGmHc9FLGcwNyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aa98f187-4b1a-176d-2a1b-826c995776cd@aegee.org>

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Дилян Палаузов
<dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org> wrote:
> A (branch master) and
> B (branch g) which is a worktree of the first.
>
> /git/B g>$ git fetch
> [...]
> From https://...
>    13e4c55a0..02655d5fb  g -> origin/g
>    c37a3ca25..bc7888511  master -> origin/master
> Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
> See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
> /git/B g<>$ git log -p origin/g
> fatal: Not a git repository: /git/A/.git/worktrees/B
> /git/B$
>
> Please note that on the second last prompt there is <>, so that git-prompt
> has found the neccessary information and this was this was later deleted -
> by 'gc' or 'log'.
>
> What would be the procedure to restore the /git/A/.git/worktrees/B
> structure?

Can you show us (via 'cat') the content of the following files?

/git/B/.git
/git/A/.git/worktrees/b/HEAD
/git/A/.git/worktrees/b/commondir
/git/A/.git/worktrees/b/gitdir