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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to recover a repository
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101217212201.GC11511@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012171218450.18272@asgard.lang.hm>

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:20:56PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:

> >3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)
> 
> I was on the default branch but if I do 'git update-ref HEAD
> refs/heads/master' I get an error 'not a valid SHA1'

That should be "git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master".

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-17  4:28 how to recover a repository david
2010-12-17  4:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-17 20:20   ` david
2010-12-17 21:22     ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-12-17 22:30       ` david

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