From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:00:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Recovering Committed Changes in a Detached Head?
Message-ID: <ab706826-75df-4410-941e-6b40ec92713c@email.android.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111008213741.GA24409@goldbirke>

>git reflog to the rescue.  For your example above it will output
>something like this:
>
>deadbeef HEAD@{0}: checkout: moving from
>92aa5381b9f7229523dba42aa94735c30f173451 to New_Branch
>  92aa5381 HEAD@{1}: commit: Committing this in the Detached Head
>3a5bb38a HEAD@{2}: checkout: moving from master to
>3a5bb38a83c00f7acab573f0ec836577143200aa
>  deafbabe HEAD@{3}: ...
>  ...
>
>There you see the first line of the commit message from your "lost"
>commit, and you can do
>
>  git checkout -b lost_detached_head 92aa5381
>
>and you get a branch pointing to that commit you made while on
>detached head, and you can work with it as usual.

While rflog is cool, I can't help but think that git could be even more helpful for these scenarios.

First, maybe git could create refs for these automatically, perhaps with a name like orphans/1?  Maybe these refs would only be visible via git branch --orphans.

-Martin
Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center,Inc. which is a member of Code Aurora Forum