panic recovery

Hi, all.

Yesterday one of my colleague tried to commit her two weeks of work. Nearly 10 source code files. After an unsuccessful am and apply commands, she tried rebase. And git bothered something like you have to finish your am first. Then I suggested to do

git am --abort

After that, we saw that all the sources she developed for two weeks are gone. We really got panic.But I know that git stores everthing as objects, namely commit,tree,blob and tag objects.

We sorted every file according to modification time under .git/objects directory and use "git show" for every single object. After a cumbersome work, we found blob objects for our source codes that we lost and commit objects. Namely we rescued her work.

Is there a better way to use in this kind of situations ?

For example, to list every single objects under objects directory according to their types ? Or search a phrase in every blob obejcts to find the source code we are looking for ?

_lvnd_ (^_^)