Hi Todd,
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:09:08PM +0000, Todd Wells wrote:
> I was using GitX to prepare a commit. Something happened -- I don't
> know what -- and suddenly my branch only had a single commit
> in it that appears to contain all the files in my tree. So I went to the
> command line and did this:
>
> $ git reset --soft HEAD^
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^': unknown revision or path not
> in the working tree.
>
> When I do 'git log' in this branch, there's only one commit. Now, I
> had many commits in this branch a few minutes ago. I really,
> really, don't want to lose this.
>
> What steps should I take to attempt to recover?
Take a look at 'gitk yourbranch@{1}' or 'git log yourbranch@{1}'. If
it looks like your branch's lost history, then you can recover from
this situation with 'git reset --hard yourbranch@{1}'.
You can read up about the details here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#recovering-lost-changes
HtH,
Gábor
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