git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned
git lost-found
GIT-LOST-FOUND(1) 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 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/. Git 1.7.9.2 02/22/2012 GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)