From: david@lang.hm
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:30:37 GMT
Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012171430270.18272@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20101217212201.GC11511@sigill.intra.peff.net>

thanks, that appears to have worked.

David Lang

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:02 -0500
> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> To: david@lang.hm
> Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:20:56PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>>> 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'
>
> That should be "git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master".
>
> -Peff
>