Hi,
-I was a bit hasty the other day and did something stupid. I added a new folder to git annex. Something like
+I was a bit hasty the other day and did something stupid. I
+added a new folder to git annex. Something like
+
git annex add my-important folder
-my-important folder contains a lot of files and it took a couple of minutes to add. When I then tried to do
+
+my-important folder contains a lot of files and it took a couple
+of minutes to add. When I then tried to do
git commit -am 'added files'
-per the walkthrough I got an error (9, as I recall). I thought I'd added too many files or something so I wanted to start over and perhaps I didn't fully understand the mechanisms of annex I did the following
+
+per the walkthrough I got an error (9, as I recall). I thought
+I'd added too many files or something so I wanted to start over
+and perhaps I didn't fully understand the mechanisms of annex I
+did the following
+
git reset --hard .
-Unfortunately, did replaced my files with a bunch of symlinks, rather than making git annex forget and go back to the previous stage as I had hoped.
-I have managed to recover most of my files from backup, but some of them I still can't recover. Is there any way back? It seems I still have the files in my git folder.
+Unfortunately, did replaced my files with a bunch of symlinks,
+rather than making git annex forget and go back to the previous
+stage as I had hoped.
+
+I have managed to recover most of my files from backup, but some
+of them I still can't recover. Is there any way back? It seems
+I still have the files in my git folder.
Thanks,
Rasmus
+
+PS: Sorry, I shouldn't have made this text rather than Markdown.
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