On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:36:53PM -0500, Joe Zim wrote: > 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? I don't quite understand your question. You deleted the original repository, which I assume means you removed the whole working tree. So can you not "git clone" the original repository again and redo your work? Or did you remove only the ".git" directory, leaving your modified working tree in place? If that is the case, you probably want: # turn your directory back into a git repository cd $your_project git init # fetch the existing work again git remote add origin $your_remote_url git fetch # now tell git that we are basing our branch on the upstream master. # We must make sure not to use "--hard" here, because that would # overwrite the working tree. git reset origin/master At this point you should be able to use "git status" to see your changes, and commit as normal. You might also want to run: git branch --set-upstream master origin/master to make "git pull" work without any arguments. This setup is done automatically by "git clone", but not by the manual init+fetch we did above. -Peff -- 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