From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:10:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Message-ID: <8c5c35580705160010s506b6f53y4209c1b541c3112a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <464AA773.3090808@garzik.org>

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'?

--
larsh