On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:06:16PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> George Karpenkov <george@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I've managed to corrupt my very valuable repository with a recursive
>> sed which went wrong.
>> I wanted to convert all tabs to spaces with the following command:
>>
>> find ./ -name '*.*' -exec sed -i 's/\t/ /g' {} \;
>
> Clearly, this is a dangerous command as it impacts .git/. However, Git
> partially protects you from this kind of error, since object files and
> pack files are read-only by default.
>
> My obvious first advice is: make backups of your corrupted repository.
> Yes, I said backup_s_, better safe than sorry.
Having backed up the corrupt state, another option is to just try
running the reverse command:
find .git -name '*.*' -exec sed -i 's/ /\t/g' {} \;
I had a quick grep over some pack indices here and ' ' doesn't occur
in any of mine whereas '\t' is very common so you may find that the only
' ' sequences are the ones you introduced.
John
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