Re: Searching all git objects

[Tarmigan <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> "Sam G." <ceptorial@comcast.net> wrote:
>> We recently had a developer make a large commit (mostly centered
>> around one file) which she believed she properly pushed to a remote
>> repository last week, but looking at both her repository and the
>> remote repository, that commit is now nowhere to be found. If somehow
>> the master branch she was working on in her repository has lost the
>> reference to the commit through perhaps some errant rebasing, then
>> perhaps an object containing the commit (or an object containing the
>> file in that commit) still exists somewhere inside her .git/objects
>> directory? We haven't done any git-gc recently. If so, how can I
>> search through every single git object in her objects directory,
>> searching for perhaps a specific part of the commit string, a line in
>> the code or the filename of the file which was changed? Any help with
>> this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Odds are it is in her HEAD reflog.  You can look for it with
> `git log -g`.  If you know some part of the commit message you
> may be able to filter it down with `git log -g --grep=X` or part
> of the change with `git log -g -SX`.

If it helps, I like viewing the reflog with gitk.  Like this:
gitk $(git log -g --pretty=format:%H)

Is there a shorter way to do this with gitk?  It would be awesome to
have `gitk -g` .

-Tarmigan