Wow. We Love you GIT :).
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Jim(y || it)
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:18 AM, superjag superja...@gmail.com wrote:
Many thanks.
In short, to recover a file deleted by git rm, use git fsck --unreachable to
show the files git is holding in limbo, and then use git show $sha1name
filename to save each one back to your filesystem (where $sha1name is the
blob ID shown in git fsck, and filename is the desired name of the file to
save it in).
Now I'm off to make that first commit...
- Jonathan Graef
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:14:19 PM UTC-5, Konstantin Khomoutov
wrote:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:43:24 -0700 (PDT)
superjag super...@gmail.com wrote:
Silly me, I thought this would remove the project directory from the
staging area, but no, it has to delete the entire project. I was
still staging my first commit when my project got deleted, so I can't
roll back.
I found this:
https://groups.google.com/**forum/#!topic/msysgit/**TLmc2996nWYhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/TLmc2996nWY
But while I can see my files in some kind of command-line editor, I
can't save them. ESC:w just makes a beeping noise. Any ideas?
I'm running git under Windows.
Uh... If I can see my files in some kind of command-line editor, I
can't save them. ESC:w just makes a beeping noise. means
I have run `git show $sha1_name_as_shown_by_git_**fsck` and this
command
showed me the contents of my file in some kind of command-line editor
then it's just Git spawned the so-called pager which, unless
reconfigured by the user (you) in one way or another defaults to the
program named less [1] which is distributed with Git for Windows.
A pager consumes what another program sends to its standard input
stream (this program is Git in our case) and allows the user to
conveniently (okay, let's not discuss this aspect for a moment) view
this input -- sort of read-only ad-hoc Notepad.
less is ubiquitous in the Unix world but is certainly able to capture
a Windows user by surprise. To quit less just press the q key (for
*q*uit), and to move the viewport use the page up/page down and cursor
keys. less is quite versatile -- hit the h key while in it to read its
online help page.
But back to your problem... The final answer to the thread you
referred to assumed you're familiar with command line, and supposed
that you know about stream redirections supported by it. Specifically,
if a program prints something to its output, you're able to save this
output by redirecting it to a file, like this:
git show $sha1name filename
The filename (also could be spelled without the white space --
filename) is the crucial bit -- it would make `git show` to write
whatever it prints to the file filename.
Git took your by surprise because it tries to be smart and if it
detects it was run on an interactive terminal and the output it's about
to print is larger than the height of this terminal, it spawns the
configured or default pager and sends its output there. If it detects
its output is redirected by the shell (that filename thing) it just
prints what it should print, and this output ends up being written into
that file.
See also [2].
1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Less_%28Unix%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_%28Unix%29
2.
https://groups.google.com/d/**msg/git-users/nn3f6FVMSNw/**NryIUTdKvFYJhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/nn3f6FVMSNw/NryIUTdKvFYJ
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