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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-04-02 21:52:57 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-04-02 21:52:57 -0400
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@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ It's actually very easy to recover from this disaster.
First, check out the git repository again. Then, in the new checkout:
- mkdir recovered-content
- sudo mv ../lost+found/* recovered-content
- git annex add recovered-content
- git rm recovered-content
- git commit -m "recovered some content"
- git annex fsck
+ $ mkdir recovered-content
+ $ sudo mv ../lost+found/* recovered-content
+ $ sudo chown you:you recovered-content
+ $ chmod -R u+w recovered-content
+ $ git annex add recovered-content
+ $ git rm recovered-content
+ $ git commit -m "recovered some content"
+ $ git annex fsck
The way that works is that when git-annex adds the same content that was in
the repository before, all the old links to that content start working