From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Message-ID: <7viratfev8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <464AA773.3090808@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:

> 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.

Ah, sorry to hear that.  Trying to rename and lost both old and
new -- that is bad.