Recovering Deleted Git Stashes

This note describes how to identify and recover deleted stashes.

Takahiro Iwasa

2017-08-05

1 min read

This note describes how to identify and recover deleted stashes.

Output Commit History

Use the following command to output commit history and identify dangling commits:

git fsck | awk '/dangling commit/ {print $3}' >> commit_list.txt

The output will look something like this:

1
dangling commit bfebf68feeebf07a86d7e3e4da77962de67c14ee
2
dangling commit 86f4aec78bd51c80b0fd2d5d83963a2259dc72b4
3
dangling commit 48fd9f8f97a577bc8a87b133f6e1dd789a692bd0
4
dangling commit 64ff8c33fb878afb8bf5c99c1b8d8fdfaa1b1f3c
5
dangling commit bdff88e13803e6c7737691aa1fb6f1e038321966

Output Commit Summaries

To review commit details, run the following script:

#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
  git show $line
done < ./commit_list.txt

This will display summaries of the dangling commits:

1
commit bfebf68feeebf07a86d7e3e4da77962de67c14ee
2
Merge: b046240 5ee731a
3
Author: Takahiro Iwasa <iwasa.takahiro@wasabee.dev>
4
Date:   Fri Feb 12 22:01:47 2016 +0900
5

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    On develop: 0212