Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 16, 2007, 07:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejlhfce0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705160010s506b6f53y4209c1b541c3112a@mail.gmail.com>

"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's bad.
>
> Just out of curiosity: do you get any output from 'git log RENAMED-REF'?

Another probably easier way to recover them would be 'git lost-found'.