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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: skillzero@gmail.com
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Restore annotated tag?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:23:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922182353.GO32601@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinafiikD0Lzgw2gw1ti2pCK6cSTk5bQZFcCRJnS@mail.gmail.com>

skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to restore an annotated tag? One was accidentally
> deleted and pushed. I can restore normal tags by just using git tag
> again, but for an annotated tag, there's a tag object and I'm not sure
> how to restore it.

If the tag still exists, `git fsck --unreachable | grep tag` should
show you output listing the dangling tag objects.  Once you have that
list, use `git show SHA1` to view the object.  When you find the tag,
make a reference to it with `git update-ref refs/tags/NAME SHA1`.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 18:14 Restore annotated tag? skillzero
2010-09-22 18:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-09-22 18:38   ` skillzero
2010-09-22 18:39     ` Shawn O. Pearce

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