Get a list of all git commits including the lost ones

Question

Let s say that I have a graph like this   A---B---C---D  master                -E---F  HEAD    If I do git log --all --oneline  I will get all six of my commits   But if the graph is  A---B---C---D  master  HEAD                -E---F   I will not see E and F  Can I get git to tell me all the commits  including those on branches which are not named   Thanks

User · Answer

What saved my life was the following command:

git reflog

There you find a screen with history commits done to git like this one:

At this point, you only have to find the HEAD@{X} that you need, create a temporary branch and move to it like this:

git checkout -b temp_branch HEAD@{X}

That way you will have a temporary branch with your lost commit without rebasing or breaking even more your git repository.

Hope this helps...

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How I solve this problem  Use git fsck and logging   First create a file containing lost  unreachable  commits and blobs   NOTE  if you did something like git gc then it will garbage collect all of they commits and you won t find them here     git fsck --lost-found  gt  lost found commits   That gives you a file like this      dangling commit dec2c5e72a81ef06963397a49c4b068540fc0dc3   dangling blob f8c2579e6cbfe022f08345fa7553feb08d60a975   dangling blob 0eb3e86dc112332ceadf9bc826c49bd371acc194   dangling blob 11cbd8eba79e01f4fd7f496b1750953146a09502   dangling commit 18733e44097d2c7a800650cea442febc5344f9b3   dangling blob 1e53a5cdb3ecdde27081ec6e8b31e4070106ee05     You can then open this file with you favorite text editor to copy the commit blog hashes from there    cough  vim macros works great for this  cough    Now you can log back from this commit with something like git log --oneline  lt commit hash gt    Alternatively  gitk  tig  or any other git viewer should work   In your case if you find the hash for commit F the log will show you something like this    A---B---E---F   Quick and easy  Now you can find the context behind all of those dangling commits   P S  Yes  I know  late post  but oh well  somebody might find it here and find it useful   Mostly likely me in 6 months when I google this again

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If you use Git Extensions GUI it can show you a graphical visualization of dangling commits if you check  View -  Show reflog references   This will show dangling commits in the tree  just like all other referenced ones  This way it is way easier to find what you are looking for   See this image for demonstration  Commits C2  C3  C4  and C5 on the image are dangling but still visible

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When I tackle this issue I use the following command   git reflog    awk    print  1      xargs gitk   This lets me visualise recent commits which have become headless   I have this wrapped up in a script helper called   bin git-reflog-gitk

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Like  Kieran  s Answer  but for the console   git log --oneline --all --graph --decorate    git reflog   awk   print  1

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I ve had luck recovering the commit by looking at the reflog  which was located at  git logs HEAD  I then had to scoll down to the end of the file  and I found the commit I just lost

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git log --reflog  saved me  I lost mine while merging HEAD and could not find my lates commit  Not showing in source tree but git log --reflog show all my local commits before

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Try   git log --reflog   which lists all git commits by pretending that all objects mentioned by reflogs  git reflog  are listed on the command line as  lt commit gt

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We ll git log sometimes is not good to get all commits detail  so to  view this     For Mac  Get into you git project and type     nano  git logs HEAD   to view you all commits in that  or     gedit  git logs HEAD   to view you all commits in that   then you can edit in any of your favourite browser

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bsimmons  git fsck --lost-found   grep commit   Then create a branch for each one      git fsck --lost-found   grep commit Checking object directories  100   256 256   done  dangling commit 2806a32af04d1bbd7803fb899071fcf247a2b9b0 dangling commit 6d0e49efd0c1a4b5bea1235c6286f0b64c4c8de1 dangling commit 91ca9b2482a96b20dc31d2af4818d69606a229d4    git branch  branch 2806a3 2806a3   git branch  branch 6d0e49 6d0e49   git branch  branch 91ca9b 91ca9b   Now many tools will show you a graphical visualization of those lost commits

User · Answer

Not particularly easily- if you ve lost the pointer to the tip of a branch  it s rather like finding a needle in a haystack  You can find all the commits that don t appear to be referenced any more- git fsck --unreachable will do this for you- but that will include commits that you threw away after a git commit --amend  old commits on branches that you rebased etc etc  So seeing all these commits at once is quite likely far too much information to wade through   So the flippant answer is  don t lose track of things you re interested in  More seriously  the reflogs will hold references to all the commits you ve used for the last 60 days or so by default  More importantly  they will give some context about what those commits are

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