On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Sam G." <ceptorial@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
