git-lost-found

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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


AUTHOR
       Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

DOCUMENTATION
       Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
       Part of the git(7) suite




Git 1.5.5.6			  01/12/2009		     GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)