From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:36:39 GMT Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss) Message-ID: <7vejlhfce0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580705160010s506b6f53y4209c1b541c3112a@mail.gmail.com> "Lars Hjemli" writes: > On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik 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'.