Re: Broken Repo

[Joe Zim <contact@joezimjs.com>]

Thanks for the reply guys. It's fixed now.

On 5/7/2012 2:49 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:36:53PM -0500, Joe Zim wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm new here. I'm using Github right now. I have a repository
>> there and a local copy on my Windows 7 PC. I made a change, committed
>> it, then attempted to push it. I got a strange error that I can't
>> remember. Anyway, after several attempts I decided to just delete the
>> local repository, restore it from github and try again later. I
>> realize now that there were other ways this should have been handled,
>> but right now it doesn't matter. I can't figure out how to restore a
>> copy from Github and make this renewed repo the master branch. Can
>> anyone give me a detailed, step by step answer please?
> I don't quite understand your question. You deleted the original
> repository, which I assume means you removed the whole working tree. So
> can you not "git clone" the original repository again and redo your
> work?
>
> Or did you remove only the ".git" directory, leaving your modified
> working tree in place? If that is the case, you probably want:
>
>    # turn your directory back into a git repository
>    cd $your_project
>    git init
>
>    # fetch the existing work again
>    git remote add origin $your_remote_url
>    git fetch
>
>    # now tell git that we are basing our branch on the upstream master.
>    # We must make sure not to use "--hard" here, because that would
>    # overwrite the working tree.
>    git reset origin/master
>
> At this point you should be able to use "git status" to see your
> changes, and commit as normal. You might also want to run:
>
>    git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
>
> to make "git pull" work without any arguments. This setup is done
> automatically by "git clone", but not by the manual init+fetch we did
> above.
>
> -Peff