Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

Add an example to the stash documentation that shows how to quickly
find candidate commits among the 'git fsck --unreachable' output.
Unless you have merges of branch names containing WIP, or edit your
merge messages to say WIP, there will be no false positives.

Snippet written by Björn "doener" Steinbrink and me after zepolen_
asked on IRC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Thomas Rast 2009-08-09 02:47:36 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c14417c4f5
commit f5f1e164bd

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@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ no conflicts.
clear::
Remove all the stashed states. Note that those states will then
be subject to pruning, and may be difficult or impossible to recover.
be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (see
'Examples' below for a possible strategy).
drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]::
@ -217,6 +218,20 @@ $ edit/build/test remaining parts
$ git commit foo -m 'Remaining parts'
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Recovering stashes that were cleared/dropped erroneously::
If you mistakenly drop or clear stashes, they cannot be recovered
through the normal safety mechanisms. However, you can try the
following incantation to get a list of stashes that are still in your
repository, but not reachable any more:
+
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git fsck --unreachable |
grep commit | cut -d\ -f3 |
xargs git log --merges --no-walk --grep=WIP
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SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-checkout[1],