Hi, On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:59:14AM +0200, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > I don't know why .git/refs/heads/stern does not exist and why it takes > so long with it. That branch is functional ('git checkout stern' succeeds), > as well as all the others. But strangely .git/refs/heads/ contains only > > [mafra@Pilar:linux-2.6]$ ls .git/refs/heads/ > dev-private master sparse > > which, apart from "master", are the last branches that I created. > > I occasionally run 'git gc --aggressive --prune" to optimize the repo, > but other than that I don't do anything fancy, just 'pull' almost > every day and 'bisect' (which is becoming a rare event now :-) > > So I would like to ask what should I do to recover the missing files > in .git/refs/heads/ (which apparently is the cause for my issue) and > how I can avoid losing them in the first place. have a look at .git/packed-refs and 'git pack-refs'. Best, Gábor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html