From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:37:21 GMT
Subject: Re: newb: Given a commit id, find which branches have it as an ancestor
Message-ID: <7v3adhj2ku.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49BA07E5.2080701@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Your best bet is perhaps that you create a branch at the commit
>
>   $ git branch tmp-branch your_sha1
>
> so that the commits are not lost, then you cherry-pick them to master.

It could be that there are more commits that are built on top of the one
you are aware of.  Finding unreachable commits from "git fsck --full"
might help you find them.