Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)

"Lars Hjemli" [off-list ref] writes:

On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] wrote:

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Jan Hudec wrote:

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And does the .git/logs/refs/heads/upstream-fixes still exist?

Nope.

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If it does not, as last resort you'd have to git fsck --unreachable
(this gives you all things that are not reachable from any ref), filter
out only commit objects and than remember which one should have been on
that branch after reading it's log, date and changes.

Yeah, that will probably recover it.  I wound up digging the emails out
of the trash bin, and applying them again.

That's bad.

Just out of curiosity: do you get any output from 'git log RENAMED-REF'?

Another probably easier way to recover them would be 'git
lost-found'.