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diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt index f52a9d7f68..c406a11001 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt @@ -7,28 +7,32 @@ git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-lost-found' +[verse] +'git lost-found' DESCRIPTION ----------- + +*NOTE*: this command is deprecated. Use linkgit:git-fsck[1] with +the option '--lost-found' instead. + Finds dangling commits and tags from the object database, and -creates refs to them in .git/lost-found/ directory. Commits and -tags that dereference to commits go to .git/lost-found/commit -and others are stored in .git/lost-found/other directory. +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 ------ -One line description from the commit and tag found along with -their object name are printed on the standard 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 mistyped the tag to overwrite. +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', it is still there. +prune', the tag itself is still there. ------------ $ git lost-found @@ -36,15 +40,15 @@ $ git lost-found ... ------------ -Also you can use gitk to browse how they relate to each other -and existing (probably old) tags. +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 that it is the object you are looking for, you -can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. +After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking +for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy. ------------ $ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196 @@ -64,15 +68,6 @@ $ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6 ------------ -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano 濱野 純 <junkio@cox.net> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - - GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |