Hi Tom, tom fogal wrote: > Long story short, I lost some metadata in a repo I've got. However, > my entire .git/objects/ && subdirs is intact, so I'm hopeful my data's > still accessible in some form. Here's what I'd suggest. 1. Backup what you have. 2. git init newrepo 3. rsync -a .git/refs .git/objects .git/packed-refs newrepo/.git/ 4. cd newrepo && git fsck --lost-found See the repository-layout manual page[1] for details. Hope that helps, Jonathan [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitrepository-layout.html -- 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