On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:21 PM, lyn2py <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was playing around with some Git commands and accidentally deleted > the folders on my local machine that were set to "untrack" in > my .gitignore (is this coincidental?) > > I didn't realize they got deleted until after the entire session of > trying out Git commands. > > I have been trying to retrace my steps to figure out which commands or > actions caused me to lose my folders, but to no avail. It's been > bugging me for a while so... it would be great if any Git users can > point out what commands may have caused my local folders to get > deleted. They didn't even appear in the trash can... I have no idea > how it happened. > > I went through the commands I used during the period, and they were > (some commands were typed many times over): > git init > git commit -m "some message" > git push > git push origin master > git push -u origin master > git add . > git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf databases/' HEAD > git rebase -i HEAD~2 > git reset --hard HEAD > git push origin master --force > git log > git status > That is why i gave up trying to learn git and moved to mercurial.
