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From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] git reset --recover
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:02:43 +0000
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:59:14PM +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
> 
> but i fogot to type "git init" which results that file1 and file2 are
> added to index of foo repository. I tried to revert the operation
> using "git reset". And the tragedy happened at that time because i
> made so fatal  a mistake that i typed "git reset --hard". And i lost
> all my files in bar dir!

If they've been added to the index then the objects should be in your
git repository, it's just that it may be hard to find them.

Does 'git fsck' report some dangling blobs?  If so (some of) them
should be the content of your missing files.