Recover deleted branch in Git [duplicate]

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• Can I recover a branch after its deletion in Git? 17 answers

I have deleted my branch by mistake like this:

git branch -D demo

But I want to recover it… I get this after git reflog

541b2f5 HEAD@{23}: checkout: moving from demo to master
06fa6d5 HEAD@{24}: commit (merge): remove ajax call for deleting variables and transfomers
b84b60a HEAD@{25}: checkout: moving from demo1 to demo

I want to create branch with sha 06fa6d5… so I tried this:

git checkout -b demo  06fa6d5

git checkout -b demo  HEAD@{24}

But I didn't get code from that…

Answer 1

Create a list of all dangling or unreachable commits.

git fsck --full --no-reflogs --unreachable --lost-found

Print a list of commit messages for all commits in the lost and found.

ls -1 .git/lost-found/commit/ | xargs -n 1 git log -n 1 --pretty=oneline

Find your missing commit through the process of manual inspection (i.e. reading). Create a new branch with the missing commit as the branch head.

git checkout -b branch-name SHA

Answer 2

Having got the potential sha1 for the last tip of branch demo, use gitk sha1 to actually browse the commit's history to check you have the right one.