# Restore annotated tag? 4 messages from 2010-09-22 to 2010-09-22. Participants: skillzero@gmail.com, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25200 ## skillzero@gmail.com, 2010-09-22 18:14 Subject: Restore annotated tag? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinafiikD0Lzgw2gw1ti2pCK6cSTk5bQZFcCRJnS%40mail.gmail.com ``` Is there a way to restore an annotated tag? One was accidentally deleted and pushed. I can restore normal tags by just using git tag again, but for an annotated tag, there's a tag object and I'm not sure how to restore it. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2010-09-22 18:23 Subject: Re: Restore annotated tag? Message-ID: <20100922182353.GO32601@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100922182353.GO32601%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` skillzero@gmail.com wrote: > Is there a way to restore an annotated tag? One was accidentally > deleted and pushed. I can restore normal tags by just using git tag > again, but for an annotated tag, there's a tag object and I'm not sure > how to restore it. If the tag still exists, `git fsck --unreachable | grep tag` should show you output listing the dangling tag objects. Once you have that list, use `git show SHA1` to view the object. When you find the tag, make a reference to it with `git update-ref refs/tags/NAME SHA1`. -- Shawn. ``` ## skillzero@gmail.com, 2010-09-22 18:38 Subject: Re: Restore annotated tag? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTingnVMsRp8%2Br5-D%3Dc-7mxfaMY1V06YXT2FQzAoL%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100922182353.GO32601@spearce.org> ``` On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > skillzero@gmail.com wrote: >> Is there a way to restore an annotated tag? One was accidentally >> deleted and pushed. I can restore normal tags by just using git tag >> again, but for an annotated tag, there's a tag object and I'm not sure >> how to restore it. > > If the tag still exists, `git fsck --unreachable | grep tag` should > show you output listing the dangling tag objects.  Once you have that > list, use `git show SHA1` to view the object.  When you find the tag, > make a reference to it with `git update-ref refs/tags/NAME SHA1`. Thanks, that worked. One thing I noticed that I wasn't sure about is that I SSH'd into the server and ran git update-ref to restore the tag. That created the symbolic name in .git/refs/tags/NAME to point to that tag object. But what I noticed is that the only file listed in .git/refs/tags is the tag I restored. There are other tags in the repository (and a fresh clone gets them), but they don't show up in that directory. Is it going to be a problem that ran git update-ref on the server (which is a bare repository) rather than on a clone that I push? I just want to make sure that the tag objects are referenced so they don't go away after the 2 week garbage collection grace period. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2010-09-22 18:39 Subject: Re: Restore annotated tag? Message-ID: <20100922183917.GP32601@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100922183917.GP32601%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` skillzero@gmail.com wrote: > > One thing I noticed that I wasn't sure about is that I SSH'd into the > server and ran git update-ref to restore the tag. That created the > symbolic name in .git/refs/tags/NAME to point to that tag object. But > what I noticed is that the only file listed in .git/refs/tags is the > tag I restored. There are other tags in the repository (and a fresh > clone gets them), but they don't show up in that directory. The other tags are in the .git/packed-refs file. > Is it > going to be a problem that ran git update-ref on the server (which is > a bare repository) rather than on a clone that I push? No. -- Shawn. ```