Re: [PATCH] Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

[Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>]

2009/8/9 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:


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> > Unless you have merges of branch names containing WIP, or edit your
> > merge messages to say WIP, there will be no false positives.
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> That may be true, but I suspect that people's stash entries that are worth
> saving are given their own messages with "git stash save 'message'" and do
> not necessarily say WIP.  I wish if there were a better way to identify
> them, but I do not think of any offhand.

gitk $(git fsck | grep commit | cut -f3 -d' ') --since='1 week ago'

The --since clause limits the display to stashes lost recently; adjust to taste.

A "stash" has a very recognisable, triangular, shape in the commit DAG
-- with gitk you can visually find stashes really fast even if your
time limit is too broad or you have too many other kinds of
unreachable commits perhaps due to too many rebase etc.