[fpc-other] (Probably trivial) git help, please

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On 10/24/25 04:26, Johannes Truschnigg via fpc-other wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> sounds odd, since git doesn't care about filesystem metadata of the files it
> tracks - it just cares about their content. So if you did a 1:1 copy of the
> repository directory onto another drive, unless something mangled the data
> during that copy, not a thing should have changed from git's perspective...

Yes, absolutely - just installed the new NAS, put the old drive on a 
temporary mount point, and did a simple copy.

> 
> If you are 100% certain you don't have any local modifications to files
> tracked by git that warrant preserving (you can check that with `git diff`,
> which shows you the changes made from the presently commited state), the
> easiest way out probably is to `git reset --hard`, which will make git restore
> all files it tracks to exactly the content as of the commit you are pointed
> at.
> 

Thanks, I will give it a try.


> Of course, If that doesn't work or give you any other kind of trouble, you can
> always just clone the source repository into another brand new location, and
> resume your activities from there.
> 

I was just being lazy, I have a script that updates the various repos 
and it's much easier to edit a copy of that than to find all the URLs 
again. :)

Thanks for the help (also Tomas)

Brian.