Re: [ANN] git-phoenix - repository recovery tool

Christian Couder
2025-07-25T18:12:56Z

Hi Daniil,

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM Daniil Iaitskov <dyaitskov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Git List,
>
> I would like to share a tool for recovery an unpublished Git repository
> after accidental removal or file system failure. VCS usually implies
> backup feature auto of the box, but due to Git decentralized nature and
> developer's laziness source code sometimes can be lost. Recently I
> accidentally deleted all projects, including a few unpulished POCs,
> after infamous rm -rf * typo. Work on them has been interrupted for
> quite awhile and rewriting them from scratch recalling all the hack
> intricacies would be terribly boring. So I decided to invest my dev time
> in a more creative way.
>
> https://github.com/yaitskov/git-phoenix/

Thanks for creating it. It doesn't seem to have a license, which might
prevent some of us from using it, though.

Anyway for now there is the following pull request to talk about it in
the next Git Rev News edition:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/790

Best,
Christian.