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I had a local git repo with a month's worth of commits. I hadn't pushed any of them so they were all _just_ local (though the head was constantly being uploaded to an online store).

I got a new computer and when I was getting rid of my old one, it didn't occur to me to push all the commits or save the git repo. So, my next commit consisted of all the changes for that entire month.

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It sounds like you forgot to copy the .git folder that had all of the commit information.

If you make a commit, it would copy over with that, because it's written in that folder.

I'd wager that you simply copied the main files over and tried to re-commit.

but wouldn't those be represented as individual commits (just happened to be pushed at the same time)?

Sounds like he lost the local repo, and only the actual final state of the files was backed up. Thus, a single new commit representing everything at once.

yes, that's right. When I got rid of my computer, I didn't save the folder containing the repo; all the commits were lost.

I was able to retrieve the full final content from the place where it was being uploaded to, but that didn't have any git-related files.

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