From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Zim Subject: Broken Repo Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 22:36:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4FA74355.3020704@joezimjs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 07 06:35:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRFfR-0002xR-7s for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 06:35:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751097Ab2EGEek (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2012 00:34:40 -0400 Received: from gateway14.websitewelcome.com ([67.18.68.2]:41782 "EHLO gateway14.websitewelcome.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954Ab2EGEej (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2012 00:34:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2003 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 00:34:39 EDT Received: by gateway14.websitewelcome.com (Postfix, from userid 5007) id 1816B4F83F80B; Sun, 6 May 2012 22:36:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from matiz.websitewelcome.com (matiz.websitewelcome.com [174.120.137.194]) by gateway14.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5A54F83F7EB for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 22:36:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [66.189.143.116] (port=56643 helo=[192.168.1.101]) by matiz.websitewelcome.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SREko-00054K-NP for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 06 May 2012 22:36:54 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - matiz.websitewelcome.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - joezimjs.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: ([192.168.1.101]) [66.189.143.116]:56643 X-Source-Auth: contact+joezimjs.com X-Email-Count: 1 X-Source-Cap: am9lemltanM7c21zaXRlczttYXRpei53ZWJzaXRld2VsY29tZS5jb20= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I'm new here. I'm using Github right now. I have a repository there and a local copy on my Windows 7 PC. I made a change, committed it, then attempted to push it. I got a strange error that I can't remember. Anyway, after several attempts I decided to just delete the local repository, restore it from github and try again later. I realize now that there were other ways this should have been handled, but right now it doesn't matter. I can't figure out how to restore a copy from Github and make this renewed repo the master branch. Can anyone give me a detailed, step by step answer please? Thanks, Joseph Zimmerman