From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broken index file - any hope?
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:53:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081003215319.GX21310@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E693E9.708@gmx.de>
Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@gmx.de> wrote:
> I come from the Ruby on Rails world, where Git is now spreading like ...
> duh, something fast.
> Today I sadly lost my complete .git directory, only the working copy was
> left behind.
> I reconstructed the directory, but the index file seems to be corrupt,
> every command just tells me about a bad signature.
> I hope the rest of the repository is intanct. If it is, is there any
> chance to restore/rebuild that index file from the rest?
> I don't have an idea of the internals of git, but I know the objects are
> stored in different files, and maybe on top of that
> I could rebuild the index file.
Give this a shot:
git read-tree --reset HEAD
git status
at worst you lose staged changes. At best you recover the index
file.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-03 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 21:51 Broken index file - any hope? Jonas Schneider
2008-10-03 21:53 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-10-03 22:03 ` Jonas Schneider
2008-10-03 22:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-03 22:09 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-10-04 3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
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