From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:58:03 GMT
Subject: Re: How to restore the original head after `git-reset --hard master^`
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510111240410.23242@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510110856520.14597@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ben Lau wrote:
> > 
> >   After involves the command `git-reset --hard master^` in a repository, 
> > the working tree , current head and index are restored to the parent of 
> > master. That includes the content of '.git/refs/head/master'. Although 
> > the original commit object is still existed , I couldn't find it back.
> > 
> >  Is there anyway to recover the original master branch ?
> 
> Just run "git-fsck-objects" and look at any dangling commits. The commit 
> and related objects are still there (unless you've run "git prune"), so 
> once you find the name of it, you're all done.

That reminds me: if you lose all of your refs, it's hard to get them back, 
because git-fsck-objects aborts if you don't specify any heads or have any 
refs. Is there some reason for this check?

	-Daniel
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