From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 01:17:56 GMT
Subject: Re: RFC: reflog for deleted branches
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_jvdjLunMPGu6QidzN7YHt0UaENp-e-6kUcy4rcC_T72w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FA2F7DA.6020108@tu-clausthal.de>

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Sven Strickroth
<sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> an often heart question is how to restore deleted branches. Sometimes
> those can be restored by using the reflog of the HEAD.

I get by with:

    gitk --date-order $(git fsck | grep "dangling.commit" | cut -f3
-d' ') --not --branches --tags --remotes

Works for me because I usually remember *something* about the commit
message so then I type in "/" and the string and in a few
"Shift-downarrow"s I'm there.