Re: Worktree silently deleted on git fetch/gc/log

From: Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>
Date: Mar 1, 2018, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <adf7a7a0-3571-5b68-5d15-30a9067e3826@aegee.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSGJhNR8dapLXN0TU8ZpTqi7m6OQf_cCGmHc9FLGcwNyg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

/git/A/.git/worktrees/b/ is missing - that is the point.

/git/B/,git wasn't modified since the worktree was created, cat: gitdir: /git/A/.git/worktrees/b

Regards
   Дилян

On 03/01/18 19:09, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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> 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 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
>