Best way to restore .git folder
git, restore, timemachine
Solution
You can check out a bare .git repo and then inflate it into a full repo by adding your source code. This will still download the entire .git folder but not your working copy code files.
- Create a new folder and navigate to it.
Clone a bare repo:
`git clone --bare https://path/to/project .git`
Copy your locally recovered files around the .git folder (in the same relative location as they were earlier).
Mark the new repo as non-bare:
`git config --local --bool core.bare false`
Finally reset the index:
`git reset HEAD -- .`
Problem
Due to some error in code, we lost a complete GIT-controlled directory. Restoring the files was not a problem; TimeMachine took care of that. However, TimeMachine apparently did not back up the .git folder. Is there a better way to restore/recreate the .git folder than to fetch the directory from the master server or another machine? Thanks in advance for any useful hint.