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"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/16/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's bad.
>
> Just out of curiosity: do you get any output from 'git log RENAMED-REF'?

Another probably easier way to recover them would be 'git
lost-found'.