On 09/02/2010 03:15 AM, paulatz wrote:
Hi all,
I seriously need help with git, I hope you can help.
I'm working on a quite big open-source software projects which is
managed with svn. Because I'm developing an extensive separate branch
(a task that takes about one year or more), and for logistic reasons,
I've got my copy which I keep up to date with the svn and manage
locally with git.
I don't use many fancy git features: I initialized the repository,
only adding the source file of a few directories (the others I'm not
going to touch) and commit my edits regularly to keep track of what
I'm changing and being able to revert (reset, in git talk) them if
necessary.
Well, a few hours ago I needed to reset the source code *in a specific
subdirectory* to a previous state in order to check when a problem
appeared, so I typed
git reset --hard -q b793...(the revision number)
ok, the code has been reverted, but all the files in the parent
directory, which I (think I) had never added to the repository, and
for sure I had never modified, have been destroyed, erase, canceled
and wiped out.
Is there any way to recover them? Where have they gone? I've been
reading git documentation for hours now, but I cannot find any mention
of similar issues.
thank you in advance
I think they are gone forever. git reset can be very nasty, and it acts
on the entire repository, not just a sub-directory. I'd always make sure
to make a full backup of the entire repository before playing around with
'git reset' until you understand it better.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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