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

DESCRIPTION
       NOTE: this command is deprecated. Use git-fsck(1) with the option
       --lost-found instead.
       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.
OUTPUT
       Prints to standard output the object names and one-line descriptions of
       any commits or tags found.
EXAMPLE
       Suppose you run git tag -f and mistype the tag to overwrite. The ref to
       your tag is overwritten, but until you run git prune, the tag itself is
       still there.
           $ git lost-found
           [1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
           ...

       Also you can use gitk to browse how any tags found relate to each
       other.
           $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*)

       After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking
       for, you can reconnect it to your regular refs hierarchy by using the
       update-ref command.
           $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196
           tag
           $ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196
           object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
           type commit
           tag v0.99.9c
           tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio AT 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

GIT
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Git 1.8.3.1                       07/30/2024                 GIT-LOST-FOUND(1)