How to recover a dropped stash in Git?

Question

I frequently use git stash and git stash pop to save and restore changes in my working tree. Yesterday I had some changes in my working tree that I

Answer 1

I couldn't get any of the answers to work on Windows in a simple command window (Windows 7 in my case). awk, grep and Select-string weren't recognized as commands. So I tried a different approach:

• first run: git fsck --unreachable | findstr "commit"
• copy the output to notepad
• find replace "unreachable commit" with start cmd /k git show

will look something like this:

start cmd /k git show 8506d235f935b92df65d58e7d75e9441220537a4 start cmd /k git show 44078733e1b36962571019126243782421fcd8ae start cmd /k git show ec09069ec893db4ec1901f94eefc8dc606b1dbf1 start cmd /k git show d00aab9198e8b81d052d90720165e48b287c302e

• save as a .bat file and run it
• the script will open a bunch of command windows, showing each commit
• if you found the one you're looking for, run: git stash apply (your hash)

may not be the best solution, but worked for me