Savannah Git repositories: do not panic

Savannah Git repositories: do not panic

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

I got aware of several projects who hosted a Git repository on Savannah 
being affected by their filesystem corruption.  The good Savannah 
people put back some revisions from their backup, which are something 
like a month old.

Some people seem to think that it has adverse effects to fetch those 
obsolete branch revisions with a "git fetch".

This mail tries to serve to cool everybody down: nobody can take away from 
you what you already fetched: in the default set up, you will still have 
the "reflogs", i.e. "git log -g origin/master" will show you a "forced 
update" to the obsolete revision, but as the next commit, you will have 
the most up-to-date revision you fetched before.

And, oh, your local branches are unaffected.

You can even help the project maintainers if you have a newer revision 
than is the current revision on Savannah...

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: congratulations to everybody who switched to a distributed version 
control system before this corruption...