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Re: Can I retrieve changes from deleted stash?

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Mmjucde <mjucde@o2.pl>
Date
Oct 5, 2009, 12:50 UTC
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<200910051430.17559.trast@student.ethz.ch>
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> Daniel wrote:
> > I did:
> > 
> > $ git stash
> > $ git pop
> > 
> > $ git checkout -- <modified files>
> > 
> > Now I don't have changes I stashed. I guess the blobs with stashed
> > files should be somewhere?  Is there any way I can get back my changes?
> > I tried to use git-reflog, but I'm not sure how can I find the files
> > I need.
> 
> The problem is that the stash itself is a reflog, so there is no extra
> safety layer.
> 
> Recent versions of the git-stash(1) manpage[*] document a command that
> helps find the stashes: if you do not explicitly name them, the they
> will be called "WIP on <subject>" and can thus be found with
> 
>   git fsck --unreachable |
>   grep commit | cut -d\  -f3 |
>   xargs git log --merges --no-walk --grep=WIP
> 
> 
> [*] you can find a bleeding edge version at
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-stash.html
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
> 
Thanks, that did the trick :)
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  1. DanielOct 5, 2009
  2. Thomas RastOct 5, 2009
  3. mjucdeOct 5, 2009

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