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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:45:30 -0600
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Hi David,

david@lang.hm wrote:

> I managed to do a 'rm *' in the .git directory (the usual sort of
> fat-fingering when cleaning up after another mistake)
> 
> the subdirectories are still there.

I'd suggest:

 1. Make a backup!
 2. From the worktree (i.e. parent to the .git directory),
    run "git init".
 3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)
 4. git reset;	# (alas, the old index file is gone)
 5. git diff; gitk --all

See gitrepository-layout(7) for details.