Re: Question about 'branch -d' safety

From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2010, 06:31 UTC
Message-ID: <1279607519.3534.14.camel@dreddbeard>
In-Reply-To: <4C451272.8000802@workspacewhiz.com>

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 21:05 -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote:

> For my sake, how is the previous tip the easiest-to-recover part of a 
> deleted branch?  How do you go about finding the lost object?
> 
> Josh

git fsck | grep '^dangling commit' | while read dangling commit hash; do
	git log -1 --format='%at %h %s' $hash
done | sort -nr | less -FRSX

-- 
-- Will

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