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<articleinfo>
    <title>git-lost-found(1)</title>
        <indexterm>
                <primary>git-lost-found(1)</primary>
        </indexterm>
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<simplesect id="_name">
<title>NAME</title>
<simpara>git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_synopsis">
<title>SYNOPSIS</title>
<simpara><emphasis>git lost-found</emphasis></simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<simpara><emphasis role="strong">NOTE</emphasis>: this command is deprecated.  Use <xref linkend="git-fsck(1)"/> with
the option <emphasis>--lost-found</emphasis> instead.</simpara>
<simpara>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.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_output">
<title>OUTPUT</title>
<simpara>Prints to standard output the object names and one-line descriptions
of any commits or tags found.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_example">
<title>EXAMPLE</title>
<simpara>Suppose you run <emphasis>git tag -f</emphasis> and mistype the tag to overwrite.
The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run <emphasis>git
prune</emphasis>, the tag itself is still there.</simpara>
<literallayout>$ git lost-found
[1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
...</literallayout>
<simpara>Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each
other.</simpara>
<literallayout>$ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit &amp;&amp; echo ??*)</literallayout>
<simpara>After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking
for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy.</simpara>
<literallayout>$ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196
tag
$ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196
object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
type commit
tag v0.99.9c
tagger Junio C Hamano &lt;junkio@cox.net&gt; 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</literallayout>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_author">
<title>Author</title>
<simpara>Written by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_documentation">
<title>Documentation</title>
<simpara>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;<ulink url="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</ulink>&gt;.</simpara>
</simplesect>
<simplesect id="_git">
<title>GIT</title>
<simpara>Part of the <xref linkend="git(1)"/> suite</simpara>
</simplesect>
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