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Recovering Committed Changes in a Detached Head?

From
DGDaly Gutierrez <daly.gutierrez@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 8, 2011, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID
<1318107488.5865.46.camel@R0b0ty>

Is this possible after changing from the Detached Head branch to an existing branch? How about if I don't remember the commit SHA1 ID?

What I did, to the best of my knowledge:
1) Checked out a previous version:
> git checkout 3a5bb38a83c00f7acab573f0ec836577143200aa
2) Modified file and committed the changes in the detached branch.
> git log
 commit 92aa5381b9f7229523dba42aa94735c30f173451
 Author: Daly Gutierrez <Daly.Gutierrez@gmail.com>
 Date:   Sat Oct 8 16:20:11 2011 -0400
    Committing this in the Detached Head
3) For curiosity,
> git branch
* (no branch)
  New_Branch
  Second_New_Branch
  master
4) Changed to 'New_Branch' branch...  I no longer see the detached
branch...
 > git branch
* New_Branch
  Second_New_Branch
  master
5) Want to access the file with the changes I made in the Detached
branch, but don't know how...  PLEASE HELP?
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  1. Daly GutierrezOct 8, 2011
  2. SZEDER GáborOct 8, 2011
  3. Martin FickOct 8, 2011
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  5. Martin FickOct 9, 2011
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