git-lost-found

Langue: en

Version: 07/28/2010 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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 <m[blue]gitster@pobox.comm[][1]>

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <m[blue]git@vger.kernel.orgm[][2]>.

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

1.
gitster@pobox.com
mailto:gitster@pobox.com
2.
git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org