not a git repository (?)

[fluca1978]

Hi all,
I'm having a problem with a few repositories I manage with git. I moved the repositories to another hard disk and today I have on all of them:


$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git


However all the data for the repository is still there:


$ ls -al
total 8
drwx------ 1 luca luca 464 2012-01-02 09:42 .
drwx------ 1 luca luca 4096 2012-01-02 09:42 ..
drwx------ 1 luca luca 0 2012-01-02 09:42 .externalToolBuilders
drwx------ 1 luca luca 4096 2012-01-02 09:42 .git
drwx------ 1 luca luca 0 2012-01-02 09:42 .settings
drwx------ 1 luca luca 0 2012-01-02 09:42 src
drwx------ 1 luca luca 256 2012-01-02 09:42 target

$ du -hs .git/*
0 .git/branches
0 .git/hooks
0 .git/info
20K .git/logs
36K .git/objects
512 .git/refs



I have to mention that I moved the repositories from an ext3 fs to a NTFS one, that is mounted as fuseblk, so it could be a permission problem. However even copying back the repositories to an ext3 fs did not solved the problem.

My system is the following:


$ uname -a
Linux lferrar3 2.6.35-29-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 15 17:12:35 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ git --version
git version 1.7.1



Any idea of what happened?

[fluca1978]

I found that HEAD and refs/heads are missing, while the remote heads are still in place. This avoid me to run even git-fsck. Any idea on how to solve the problem? Please note that objects are still in place.