From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 23:43:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viratfev8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464AA773.3090808@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:51 -0400")
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
>> And does the .git/logs/refs/heads/upstream-fixes still exist?
>
> Nope.
>
>
>> 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.
Ah, sorry to hear that. Trying to rename and lost both old and
new -- that is bad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-16 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 5:18 Losing branches (whee, data loss) Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 5:48 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-16 5:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 6:14 ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-16 6:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-16 6:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-05-16 7:10 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-05-16 7:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-16 6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-16 6:40 ` Jeff Garzik
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