Subject: Re: how to recover a repository

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:45:30 -0600

Hi David,

[email-masked] wrote:

> I managed to do a 'rm *' in the .git directory (the usual sort of
> fat-fingering when cleaning up after another mistake)
> 
> the subdirectories are still there.

I'd suggest:

 1. Make a backup!
 2. From the worktree (i.e. parent to the .git directory),
    run "git init".
 3. git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/(branch you were on)
 4. git reset;	# (alas, the old index file is gone)
 5. git diff; gitk --all

See gitrepository-layout(7) for details.