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.TH "GIT\-LOST\-FOUND" "1" "09/19/2007" "Git 1.5.3.2" "Git Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
git\-lost\-found \- Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fIgit\-lost\-found\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and creates refs to them in the .git/lost\-found/ directory. Commits and tags that dereference to commits are stored in .git/lost\-found/commit, and other objects are stored in .git/lost\-found/other.
.SH "OUTPUT"
Prints to standard output the object names and one\-line descriptions of any commits or tags found.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
Suppose you run \fIgit tag \-f\fR and mistype the tag to overwrite. The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run \fIgit prune\fR, the tag itself is still there.
.sp
.nf
.ft C
$ git lost\-found
[1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
...
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.fi
Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each other.
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.nf
.ft C
$ gitk $(cd .git/lost\-found/commit && echo ??*)
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.fi
After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy.
.sp
.nf
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$ git cat\-file \-t 1ef2b196
tag
$ git cat\-file tag 1ef2b196
object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
type commit
tag v0.99.9c
tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 \-0800

GIT 0.99.9c

This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since
...
$ git update\-ref refs/tags/not\-lost\-anymore 1ef2b196
$ git rev\-parse not\-lost\-anymore
1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6
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.fi
.SH "AUTHOR"
Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net>
.SH "DOCUMENTATION"
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git\-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
.SH "GIT"
Part of the \fBgit\fR(7) suite