1GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)                 Git Manual                 GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)
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NAME

6       git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been
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SYNOPSIS

10       git-lost-found
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DESCRIPTION

13       Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and creates
14       refs to them in the .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and tags that
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OUTPUT

19       Prints to standard output the object names and one-line descriptions of
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EXAMPLE

23       Suppose you run git tag -f and mistype the tag to overwrite. The ref to
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30           [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
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32       Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each
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39       After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking
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47           object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
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50           tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800
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54           This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since
55           $ git update-ref refs/tags/not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196
56           $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
57           1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6
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AUTHOR

61       Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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DOCUMENTATION

64       Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT

67       Part of the git(7) suite
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72Git 1.5.3.3                       10/09/2007                 GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)
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