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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Losing branches (whee, data loss)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:10:28 +0200
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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'?

--
larsh