From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Dennis Putnam <dap1@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recovering Folder from Git Restored Repo
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 17:18:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801211824.cmjhpvdlohla7cbk@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84080bca-af5f-b957-460a-0a4a81f383e7@bellsouth.net>
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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2016-08-01 20:58 Recovering Folder from Git Restored Repo Dennis Putnam
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