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How to restore the original head after `git-reset --hard master^`

From
BLBen Lau <benlau@ust.hk>
Date
Oct 11, 2005, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID
<434BD65A.9000108@ust.hk>
Hi all,
   After involves the command `git-reset --hard master^` in a 
repository, the working
tree , current head and index are restored to the parent of master. That 
includes
the content of '.git/refs/head/master'. Although the original commit 
object is still existed
, I couldn't find it back.
  Is there anyway to recover the original master branch ? or I have to 
restore the branch
manually by finding out all the child of current head? If that is the 
solution , what command
could provide this information?
Thanks
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