| git-lost-found(1) |
| ================= |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned |
| |
| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| 'git-lost-found' |
| |
| DESCRIPTION |
| ----------- |
| Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and |
| creates refs to them in .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and |
| tags that dereference to commits go to .git/lost-found/commit |
| and others are stored in .git/lost-found/other directory. |
| |
| |
| OUTPUT |
| ------ |
| One line description from the commit and tag found along with |
| their object name are printed on the standard output. |
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| |
| EXAMPLE |
| ------- |
| |
| Suppose you run 'git tag -f' and mistyped the tag to overwrite. |
| The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git |
| prune', it is still there. |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ git lost-found |
| [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c |
| ... |
| ------------ |
| |
| Also you can use gitk to browse how they relate to each other |
| and existing (probably old) tags. |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*) |
| ------------ |
| |
| After making sure that it is the object you are looking for, you |
| can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. |
| |
| ------------ |
| $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196 |
| tag |
| $ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196 |
| object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a |
| type commit |
| tag v0.99.9c |
| tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800 |
| |
| GIT 0.99.9c |
| |
| This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since |
| ... |
| $ git update-ref refs/tags/not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196 |
| $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore |
| 1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6 |
| ------------ |
| |
| Author |
| ------ |
| Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net> |
| |
| Documentation |
| -------------- |
| Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. |
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| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
