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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Cc: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464AA773.3090808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516061449.GA25273@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

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.

	Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16  6:41 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 [this message]
2007-05-16  6:43         ` Junio C Hamano
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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