Re: Broken index file - any hope?

["Jeff Whiteside" <jeff.m.whiteside@gmail.com>]

I don't know if you're new to git, but I used git for about a year
before I knew what the index really was.

Remember, the index file only stores changes you made to the
checkedout code AFTER the last commit, so all your commits are safely
in the tree objects still.

The index is only a place to store changes you made with "git add",
not "git commit".

I'm not sure how you refresh the index file but i would back
everything up and try a "git reset --hard" or something.



On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM, 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?
>
> Does not look like a good sign :/
> Are all my branches (branch==tree?) gone? (okay, werent that much)
>
> Thanks anyway :)
> -- Jonas
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