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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: recovering orphaned commit
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:24:24 +0200
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Hi Mahesh,

Mahesh Vaidya writes:
>  I have a situation like this; 2 commits.
> 
> Example -
> 
>  2899684ed173063354b7fe4f5ec7216e7d953e2c	 <-- HEAD  ( say C1)
>  1ef67de1a0d6e97470a8c827d2989317600532ff                    ( say C2)
> 
> To see file at C2 ; I have done git reset --hard C2; I could see the file.
> Now want go to C1 ; Ho do I Determine C1  using git command ?

Use git-reflog (1) perhaps?

-- Ram