1git-lost-found(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned. 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git-lost-found' 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and 15creates refs to them in .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and 16tags that dereference to commits go to .git/lost-found/commit 17and others are stored in .git/lost-found/other directory. 18 19 20OUTPUT 21------ 22One line description from the commit and tag found along with 23their object name are printed on the standard output. 24 25 26EXAMPLE 27------- 28 29Suppose you run 'git tag -f' and mistyped the tag to overwrite. 30The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git 31prune', it is still there. 32 33------------ 34$ git lost-found 35[1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c 36... 37------------ 38 39Also you can use gitk to browse how they relate to each other 40and existing (probably old) tags. 41 42------------ 43$ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*) 44------------ 45 46After making sure that it is the object you are looking for, you 47can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. 48 49------------ 50$ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196 51tag 52$ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196 53object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a 54type commit 55tag v0.99.9c 56tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800 57 58GIT 0.99.9c 59 60This 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 641ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6 65------------ 66 67Author 68------ 69Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net> 70 71Documentation 72-------------- 73Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 74 75 76GIT 77--- 78Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite