Sorry, I forgot to reply to all in the last mail, again.. Hi Neil, I used "git lost-found" to find out the latest commits, and use git checkout -b cupcake commit_hash to get my lost branch back. Thanks! Though, I'm still confused about what had happened. :( Regards, Johnny On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Johnny Lee <johnnylee194@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The log about cupcake is also gone.. > > git@tomato:~/golf$ cat .git/logs/refs/heads/ > htc_cupcake tmo_cupcake > > And I can't get the latest hash by git log: > git@tomato:~/golf$ git log > fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD' > > Regards, > Johnny > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Neil Macneale <mac4@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Johnny Lee wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Today I found my current branch (named cupcake) has disappeared. >>> git@tomato:~/golf$ git branch -a >>> htc_cupcake >>> tmo_cupcake >>> origin/HEAD >>> origin/cupcake >>> origin/device >>> >>> As you can see, there is no "*" to mark the current branch. >>> >>> But when I check the HEAD, it still pointed to the cupcake branch >>> git@tomato:~/golf$ cat .git/HEAD >>> ref: refs/heads/cupcake >>> >>> But when I check the ref/heads, the cupcake is missing >>> git@tomato:~/golf$ ls .git/refs/heads/ >>> htc_cupcake tmo_cupcake >>> >>> And the cupcake in still in the config: >>> git@tomato:~/golf$ cat .git/config >>> [core] >>> repositoryformatversion = 0 >>> filemode = true >>> bare = false >>> logallrefupdates = true >>> sharedRepository = 1 >>> [remote "origin"] >>> url = /home/rick/golfresort/device/.git >>> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* >>> [branch "cupcake"] >>> remote = origin >>> merge = refs/heads/cupcake >>> >>> I'm confused: >>> 1. I didn't do any aggressive operations. Why the branch has >>> disappeared? Normally I have done these operation for this repo: >>> i. pull from parent repo >>> ii. cloned by children repo >>> iii. pulled by children repo >>> iv. pushed from children repo >>> 2. Is there any way to resume the cupcake branch? Can I manually add >>> the cupcake to ref/heads? >> >> I don't know why the cupcake branch would be gone, but you can probably get >> something from the logs: >> >> $ cat .git/logs/refs/heads/cupcake >> >> The last line should tell you what commit you were at before it was >> destroyed. Then you can create the branch again. >> >> $ git checkout -b cupcake <hash in the log> >> >> Hope that helps, >> Neil >> > > > > -- > we all have our crosses to bear > -- we all have our crosses to bear -- 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
