From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: Broken index file - any hope? Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:07:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20081003220750.GY21310@spearce.org> References: <48E693E9.708@gmx.de> <20081003215319.GX21310@spearce.org> <48E696CB.6040405@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonas Schneider X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 04 00:10:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlspZ-0005l3-C3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:09:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752836AbYJCWHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752740AbYJCWHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:07:51 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:39143 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751853AbYJCWHv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:07:51 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5B9E93835F; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48E696CB.6040405@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonas Schneider 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.