Re: Searching all git objects

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Shawn O. Pearce  
> <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> "Sam G." <ceptorial@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> We recently had a developer make a large commit (mostly centered
>>> around one file) which she believed she properly pushed to a remote
>>> repository last week, but looking at both her repository and the
>>> remote repository, that commit is now nowhere to be found. If  
>>> somehow
>>> the master branch she was working on in her repository has lost the
>>> reference to the commit through perhaps some errant rebasing, then
>>> perhaps an object containing the commit (or an object containing the
>>> file in that commit) still exists somewhere inside her .git/objects
>>> directory? We haven't done any git-gc recently. If so, how can I
>>> search through every single git object in her objects directory,
>>> searching for perhaps a specific part of the commit string, a line  
>>> in
>>> the code or the filename of the file which was changed? Any help  
>>> with
>>> this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>> Odds are it is in her HEAD reflog.  You can look for it with
>> `git log -g`.  If you know some part of the commit message you
>> may be able to filter it down with `git log -g --grep=X` or part
>> of the change with `git log -g -SX`.
>
> If it helps, I like viewing the reflog with gitk.  Like this:
> gitk $(git log -g --pretty=format:%H)
>
> Is there a shorter way to do this with gitk?  It would be awesome to
> have `gitk -g` .
>
> -Tarmigan