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From: Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Broken index file - any hope?
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:51:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E693E9.708@gmx.de> (raw)

Hey guys,

I come from the Ruby on Rails world, where Git is now spreading like ... 
duh, something fast.
Today I sadly lost my complete .git directory, only the working copy was 
left behind.
I reconstructed the directory, but the index file seems to be corrupt, 
every command just tells me about a bad signature.
I hope the rest of the repository is intanct. If it is, is there any 
chance to restore/rebuild that index file from the rest?
I don't have an idea of the internals of git, but I know the objects are 
stored in different files, and maybe on top of that
I could rebuild the index file.

Any hope?
Thanks,
--Jonas Schneider

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-03 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-03 21:51 Jonas Schneider [this message]
2008-10-03 21:53 ` Broken index file - any hope? Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-03 22:03   ` Jonas Schneider
2008-10-03 22:07     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-03 22:09     ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-10-04  3:08     ` Linus Torvalds

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