A weird thing happend to my git repository. When I try to commit something in tortoisegit window I receive all files from project. I cannot revert them, when I pull from server I receive fatal: No such ref: HEAD
and fatal: Cannot lock the ref 'HEAD'
. All my local branches are missing. Is there any way to resolve the problem?
This is not first commit or something. This thing happend suddenly.
EDIT:
git branch -a
says: Failed to resolve HEAD as a valid ref
git status
prints all project files marked as new file.
I changed repository folder name for a while, and when I changed it back things were not correct.
You've lost your HEAD
so you'll need to recreate it. The simplest thing to do is this.
echo ref: refs/heads/master >.git/HEAD
Now you should be able to run other git commands and see where you're at.
(Although, in theory, you could attempt to do git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
newer git versions don't recognize a .git
as a git repository unless it already contains a HEAD
so this won't work to create a new one.)