From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Message-ID: <464AA773.3090808@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070516061449.GA25273@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

Jan Hudec wrote:
> And does the .git/logs/refs/heads/upstream-fixes still exist?

Nope.


> If it does not, as last resort you'd have to git fsck --unreachable
> (this gives you all things that are not reachable from any ref), filter
> out only commit objects and than remember which one should have been on
> that branch after reading it's log, date and changes.

Yeah, that will probably recover it.  I wound up digging the emails out 
of the trash bin, and applying them again.

	Jeff