* Recovering Folder from Git Restored Repo
@ 2016-08-01 20:58 Dennis Putnam
2016-08-01 21:18 ` Jeff King
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From: Dennis Putnam @ 2016-08-01 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git@vger.kernel.org
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I am in a bit of a pickle. I deleted a remote repo that had a folder
that I belatedly realized I need. The deleted repo exists on a backup
which I restored. How do I extract the needed folder from that restored
repo. Not being a git expert I'm not sure what to do but I cannot find
any recognizable sources. This is an 'ls' of the restored repo:
branches config description HEAD hooks info objects ref
TIA.
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* Re: Recovering Folder from Git Restored Repo
2016-08-01 20:58 Recovering Folder from Git Restored Repo Dennis Putnam
@ 2016-08-01 21:18 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2016-08-01 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dennis Putnam; +Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 04:58:47PM -0400, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> I am in a bit of a pickle. I deleted a remote repo that had a folder
> that I belatedly realized I need. The deleted repo exists on a backup
> which I restored. How do I extract the needed folder from that restored
> repo. Not being a git expert I'm not sure what to do but I cannot find
> any recognizable sources. This is an 'ls' of the restored repo:
>
> branches config description HEAD hooks info objects ref
That's a "bare" repository, which has no matching working tree, just the
git data. The simplest thing may be to just clone it; the clone will
have a working tree:
git clone /path/to/restored-repo tmp
cd tmp
and then you can pick out whatever files you like.
You can also extract the data straight from the bare repository. Try
"git ls-tree -r HEAD" to see the complete listing of files (replace HEAD
with the name of a specific branch if it was there). You can extract
individual files with "git show HEAD:path/to/file". Or you can generate
a tar or zip archive of a subtree like:
git archive --format=zip HEAD:my-subdir >foo.zip
-Peff
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