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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 02:40:51 -0400
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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