From: david@lang.hm
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:20:56 GMT
Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012171218450.18272@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20101217044530.GA8590@burratino>

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> I managed to do a 'rm *' in the .git directory (the usual sort of
>> fat-fingering when cleaning up after another mistake)
>>
>> the subdirectories are still there.
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> 1. Make a backup!
> 2. From the worktree (i.e. parent to the .git directory),
>    run "git init".
> 3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)

I was on the default branch but if I do 'git update-ref HEAD 
refs/heads/master' I get an error 'not a valid SHA1'

.git/refs/heads is empty

.git/logs/HEAD looks like it shows all the commits in it properly

David Lang

> 4. git reset;	# (alas, the old index file is gone)
> 5. git diff; gitk --all
>
> See gitrepository-layout(7) for details.
>