Documentation/git-lost-found.txt

   1 git-lost-found(1)
   2 =================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned
   7
   8 SYNOPSIS
   9 --------
  10 'git lost-found'
  11
  12 DESCRIPTION
  13 -----------
  14
  15 *NOTE*: this command is deprecated.  Use linkgit:git-fsck[1] with
  16 the option '--lost-found' instead.
  17
  18 Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and
  19 creates refs to them in the .git/lost-found/ directory.  Commits and
  20 tags that dereference to commits are stored in .git/lost-found/commit,
  21 and other objects are stored in .git/lost-found/other.
  22
  23
  24 OUTPUT
  25 ------
  26 Prints to standard output the object names and one-line descriptions
  27 of any commits or tags found.
  28
  29 EXAMPLE
  30 -------
  31
  32 Suppose you run 'git tag -f' and mistype the tag to overwrite.
  33 The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git
  34 prune', the tag itself is still there.
  35
  36 ------------
  37 $ git lost-found
  38 [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
  39 ...
  40 ------------
  41
  42 Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each
  43 other.
  44
  45 ------------
  46 $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*)
  47 ------------
  48
  49 After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking
  50 for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy.
  51
  52 ------------
  53 $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196
  54 tag
  55 $ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196
  56 object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
  57 type commit
  58 tag v0.99.9c
  59 tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800
  60
  61 GIT 0.99.9c
  62
  63 This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since
  64 ...
  65 $ git update-ref refs/tags/not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196
  66 $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
  67 1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6
  68 ------------
  69
  70 Author
  71 ------
  72 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
  73
  74 Documentation
  75 --------------
  76 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  77
  78
  79 GIT
  80 ---
  81 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite