| git-lost-found(1) | |
| ================= | |
| NAME | |
| ---- | |
| git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned | |
| SYNOPSIS | |
| -------- | |
| 'git lost-found' | |
| DESCRIPTION | |
| ----------- | |
| *NOTE*: this command is deprecated. Use linkgit:git-fsck[1] with | |
| the option '--lost-found' instead. | |
| Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and | |
| creates refs to them in the .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and | |
| tags that dereference to commits are stored in .git/lost-found/commit, | |
| and other objects are stored in .git/lost-found/other. | |
| OUTPUT | |
| ------ | |
| Prints to standard output the object names and one-line descriptions | |
| of any commits or tags found. | |
| EXAMPLE | |
| ------- | |
| Suppose you run 'git tag -f' and mistype the tag to overwrite. | |
| The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git | |
| prune', the tag itself is still there. | |
| ------------ | |
| $ git lost-found | |
| [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c | |
| ... | |
| ------------ | |
| Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each | |
| other. | |
| ------------ | |
| $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*) | |
| ------------ | |
| After making sure you know which the object is the tag 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 <gitster@pobox.com> | |
| Documentation | |
| -------------- | |
| Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| GIT | |
| --- | |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |