diff --git a/doc/forum/Stupid_mistake:_recoverable__63__.txt b/doc/forum/Stupid_mistake:_recoverable__63__.txt index 6fb3374afe..ba270d6ea8 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Stupid_mistake:_recoverable__63__.txt +++ b/doc/forum/Stupid_mistake:_recoverable__63__.txt @@ -1,14 +1,30 @@ Hi, -I was a bit hasty the other day and did something stupid. I added a new folder to git annex. Something like - git annex add my-important folder -my-important folder contains a lot of files and it took a couple of minutes to add. When I then tried to do - git commit -am 'added files' -per the walkthrough I got an error (9, as I recall). I thought I'd added too many files or something so I wanted to start over and perhaps I didn't fully understand the mechanisms of annex I did the following - git reset --hard . -Unfortunately, did replaced my files with a bunch of symlinks, rather than making git annex forget and go back to the previous stage as I had hoped. +I was a bit hasty the other day and did something stupid. I +added a new folder to git annex. Something like -I have managed to recover most of my files from backup, but some of them I still can't recover. Is there any way back? It seems I still have the files in my git folder. + git annex add my-important folder + +my-important folder contains a lot of files and it took a couple +of minutes to add. When I then tried to do + git commit -am 'added files' + +per the walkthrough I got an error (9, as I recall). I thought +I'd added too many files or something so I wanted to start over +and perhaps I didn't fully understand the mechanisms of annex I +did the following + + git reset --hard . + +Unfortunately, did replaced my files with a bunch of symlinks, +rather than making git annex forget and go back to the previous +stage as I had hoped. + +I have managed to recover most of my files from backup, but some +of them I still can't recover. Is there any way back? It seems +I still have the files in my git folder. Thanks, Rasmus + +PS: Sorry, I shouldn't have made this text rather than Markdown.