From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: how to recover a repository Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20101217212201.GC11511@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20101217044530.GA8590@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 17 22:22:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PThkh-00012V-Ch for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:22:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756261Ab0LQVWH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:07 -0500 Received: from xen6.gtisc.gatech.edu ([143.215.130.70]:37394 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755671Ab0LQVWE (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:04 -0500 Received: (qmail 10557 invoked by uid 111); 17 Dec 2010 21:22:02 -0000 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (99.108.226.0) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:22:02 +0000 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:22:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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