How to compute the git hash-object of a directory?

Question

Does anyone have an example of using git hash-object on a directory? It works easily enough on a file* but doesn\'t work as I\'d expect for a directory**

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Answer 1

After long searching I found the following command:

git write-tree

Source: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-write-tree

I used it to recover the missing directory:

git write-tree path/to/missing/folder

And my missing tree object got created. From here you can continue using:

git hash-object -w path/to/missing/folder/file.txt

As explained in: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_to_fix_a_broken_repository.3F