[Labs-l] Need help

[Magnus Manske]

Thanks Tim!

Now that I know that there's a "good" copy, I'm happy to delay restoration
a day or two if it helps to find the cause, and hopefully prevent it from
happening again.

Cheers,
Magnus


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de>wrote:

> Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > The last working setup I can confirm is June 24.
>
> > Note that I created a local git repository in the directory. I have
> > unsuccessfully tried to checkout the last/any version, but it might still
> > be in there.
>
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> > [...]
>
> I made a backup copy of the directory to my personal direc-
> tory.  Working on that, I see a Git commit on June 24th
> (670fa7a) that added a bunch of files, and another on July
> 3rd (ada45db) that deleted everything.  So it looks like the
> directory was corrupted between those dates and you just
> saved the status quo (= nothing) afterwards.
>
> When I try to checkout the "useful" commit 670fa7a, git com-
> plains:
>
> | error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
> by checkout:
> |         public_html
> |         public_html
> |         public_html
> |         public_html
> |         public_html
> |         public_html
> | Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
> | Aborting
>
> When I remove the file public_html then and checkout again,
> it restores the files as of June 24th.  So, good news if you
> haven't done anything major after that date.
>
> If it's not urgent however, I would like to let Coren inves-
> tigate your directory as it is before we clobber any "evi-
> dence" :-).  I understand from Andrew's announcement and
> Yuvi's remark that he is "flying and/or comatose from jet-
> lag" at the moment :-), so we probably will have to wait
> till tomorrow.  Okay?
>
> Tim
>
>
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