From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:04:25 GMT
Subject: Re: How to restore the original head after `git-reset --hard master^`
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510111003180.14597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510111240410.23242@iabervon.org>



On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> That reminds me: if you lose all of your refs, it's hard to get them back, 
> because git-fsck-objects aborts if you don't specify any heads or have any 
> refs. Is there some reason for this check?

"git prune" is the reason for that check.  Pruning your whole object store 
is likely not what you want ;)

You might make it abort only when "--unreachable" has been specified..

		Linus