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 15:07:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081003220750.GY21310@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E696CB.6040405@gmx.de>
Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@gmx.de> wrote:
> Shawn O. Pearce schrieb:
>> git read-tree --reset HEAD
> Sadly, this doesnt help. I still get the same error.
> But, if I remove the corrupt index file, I get this:
>
> fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
Yea, so that sounds like "git log" doesn't work because HEAD isn't
pointing at a valid branch.
> Does not look like a good sign :/
> Are all my branches (branch==tree?) gone? (okay, werent that much)
Yes, a branch contains a series of trees. The current tree of a
branch is the tree of the most recent commit on that branch.
They may be gone.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-03 22:09 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
2008-10-03 22:03 ` Jonas Schneider
2008-10-03 22:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-10-03 22:09 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-10-04 3:08 ` Linus Torvalds
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