A script to help with recovering an orphaned commit from a remote.
For instance, you force-push your branch away from the commit it was on.
You know what the full commit hash was,
but you don't have a local copy of the commit.
However, the commit is still there on the remote
because it hasn't been garbage-collected yet.
Unfortunately you can't just run git fetch <commit>
because it's not an advertised ref.
This script allows you to create a temporary branch on the remote server pointing at the desired commit, even though you don't have a copy of the commit in question.
recover.py git@example.com:repo.git temp-recovery-branch 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789
- dulwich
- If the remote has certain configuration options set,
you may be able to just perform
git fetch <commit>. Some remotes may have these set by default. - If you're using GitHub, you can use the GitHub API to do the same thing as this script.