Jonas Schneider <JonasSchneider@xxxxxx> wrote: > I come from the Ruby on Rails world, where Git is now spreading like ... > duh, something fast. > Today I sadly lost my complete .git directory, only the working copy was > left behind. > I reconstructed the directory, but the index file seems to be corrupt, > every command just tells me about a bad signature. > I hope the rest of the repository is intanct. If it is, is there any > chance to restore/rebuild that index file from the rest? > I don't have an idea of the internals of git, but I know the objects are > stored in different files, and maybe on top of that > I could rebuild the index file. Give this a shot: git read-tree --reset HEAD git status at worst you lose staged changes. At best you recover the index file. -- Shawn. -- 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
