| Junio C Hamano | 1a4e841 | 2005-12-27 08:17:23 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | git-lost-found(1) |
| 2 | ================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | NAME |
| 5 | ---- |
| Junio C Hamano | 0107892 | 2006-03-10 00:31:47 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned |
| Junio C Hamano | 1a4e841 | 2005-12-27 08:17:23 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | |
| 8 | SYNOPSIS |
| 9 | -------- |
| 10 | 'git-lost-found' |
| 11 | |
| 12 | DESCRIPTION |
| 13 | ----------- |
| 14 | Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and |
| 15 | creates refs to them in .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and |
| 16 | tags that dereference to commits go to .git/lost-found/commit |
| 17 | and others are stored in .git/lost-found/other directory. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | |
| 20 | OUTPUT |
| 21 | ------ |
| 22 | One line description from the commit and tag found along with |
| 23 | their object name are printed on the standard output. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | |
| 26 | EXAMPLE |
| 27 | ------- |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Suppose you run 'git tag -f' and mistyped the tag to overwrite. |
| 30 | The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git |
| 31 | prune', it is still there. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ------------ |
| 34 | $ git lost-found |
| 35 | [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c |
| 36 | ... |
| 37 | ------------ |
| 38 | |
| 39 | Also you can use gitk to browse how they relate to each other |
| 40 | and existing (probably old) tags. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ------------ |
| 43 | $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*) |
| 44 | ------------ |
| 45 | |
| 46 | After making sure that it is the object you are looking for, you |
| 47 | can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ------------ |
| 50 | $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196 |
| 51 | tag |
| 52 | $ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196 |
| 53 | object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a |
| 54 | type commit |
| 55 | tag v0.99.9c |
| 56 | tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800 |
| 57 | |
| 58 | GIT 0.99.9c |
| 59 | |
| 60 | This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since |
| 61 | ... |
| 62 | $ git update-ref refs/tags/not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196 |
| 63 | $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore |
| 64 | 1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6 |
| 65 | ------------ |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Author |
| 68 | ------ |
| 69 | Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net> |
| 70 | |
| 71 | Documentation |
| 72 | -------------- |
| 73 | Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | |
| 76 | GIT |
| 77 | --- |
| 78 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
