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

You can achieve this in 2 easy steps

1. List lost stashes --> run this command for a project where all stashes were trashed:

   git fsck --unreachable | grep commit | cut -d ' ' -f3 | xargs git log --merges --no-walk

2. Send a lost stash back where it comes from --> Let’s use the commit hash of the second stash:

   git update-ref refs/stash 4b3fc45c94caadcc87d783064624585c194f4be8 -m "My recovered stash"