Re: Commits gone AWOL, but not reported by git-fsck --unreachable
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Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
- Date
- May 19, 2007, 12:09 UTC
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- <20070519120933.GW17511@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
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- <20070519115245.GA10035@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:52:45AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:30:11AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > Problem: > > -------- > > A bunch of my commits are NOT present in git-log, git-rev-list, or any > > tool that provides the history of my branches. > > > > If I hack around and recover the commitid, I can pass it to git-show, > > and the commit does still exist in the data. > > > > git-fsck --unreachable does not list the commit in question either, but > > does list other blobs and trees. > Are you sure it isn't in your reflog? Try 'git reflog show' or 'git log > -g'.
Ahh, they do show up there (and I learnt a new git command now, thanks) - the ones that I can remember the Subject lines for anyway.
Any hints for the future on finding stuff that is in the reflog but not in the tree? (Remembering every subject line isn't feasible).
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