恢复本地和远程删除git分支

Question

I was in charge of organizing a repo which had many branches to spare and during the merges I didn't notice that a branch didn't fully merge properly but at the time I deleted it both locally and remotely. Is there any way possible to recover this branch?

Answer 1

There is many way, providing you didn't removed it too long ago.

1. When you delete it, it says "was [short_commit_id]". If you can find that message, just use the command

    git branch mybranch [short_commit_id] 

   to recreate the branch

2. If you can't find that message in your log, you can use git reflog to find out what the commit was. git reflog shows you all the modification that occured to HEAD, which can help you figure out what the last commit of that branch was.

   Once you've figured out, just use the command from 1. to recreate the branch.