Thanks Tim! Now that I know that there's a "good" copy, I'm happy to delay restoration a day or two if it helps to find the cause, and hopefully prevent it from happening again.
Cheers, Magnus On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]>wrote: > Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The last working setup I can confirm is June 24. > > > Note that I created a local git repository in the directory. I have > > unsuccessfully tried to checkout the last/any version, but it might still > > be in there. > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > [...] > > I made a backup copy of the directory to my personal direc- > tory. Working on that, I see a Git commit on June 24th > (670fa7a) that added a bunch of files, and another on July > 3rd (ada45db) that deleted everything. So it looks like the > directory was corrupted between those dates and you just > saved the status quo (= nothing) afterwards. > > When I try to checkout the "useful" commit 670fa7a, git com- > plains: > > | error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten > by checkout: > | public_html > | public_html > | public_html > | public_html > | public_html > | public_html > | Please move or remove them before you can switch branches. > | Aborting > > When I remove the file public_html then and checkout again, > it restores the files as of June 24th. So, good news if you > haven't done anything major after that date. > > If it's not urgent however, I would like to let Coren inves- > tigate your directory as it is before we clobber any "evi- > dence" :-). I understand from Andrew's announcement and > Yuvi's remark that he is "flying and/or comatose from jet- > lag" at the moment :-), so we probably will have to wait > till tomorrow. Okay? > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > -- undefined
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