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Jeff King 48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00

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git-lost-found(1)
=================
NAME
----
git-lost-found - Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet been pruned
SYNOPSIS
--------
'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 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
------
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 mistype the tag to overwrite.
The ref to your tag is overwritten, but until you run 'git
prune', the tag itself is still there.
------------
$ git lost-found
[1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6] GIT 0.99.9c
...
------------
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 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
tag
$ git cat-file tag 1ef2b196
object fa41bbce8e38c67a218415de6cfa510c7e50032a
type commit
tag v0.99.9c
tagger Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 1131059594 -0800
GIT 0.99.9c
This contains the following changes from the "master" branch, since
...
$ git update-ref refs/tags/not-lost-anymore 1ef2b196
$ git rev-parse not-lost-anymore
1ef2b196d909eed523d4f3c9bf54b78cdd6843c6
------------
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite