git-lost-found (1)

Name

git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned

Synopsis

git lost-found

Description

Git Manual                                      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 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




Git 1.7.9.2          Last change: 02/22/2012                    1






Git Manual                                      GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)



         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


GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite



ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | developer/versioning/git |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted              |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from  http://git-
     core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
























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