[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="4.154.4.90" subject="comment 1" date="2013-07-16T18:29:37Z" content=""" All you have to do to get file1 back is check its symlink back out of git's history. `git checkout file1` should suffice to recover. \"Loses content\" is way overstating the severity of this bug. """]]